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Staff (2022) 193,773. Volunteers (2022) 443,334. Website. www.drk.de. Round logo of the GRC. The German Red Cross (GRC) ( German: Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [ˈdɔʏtʃəs ˈʁoːtəs ˈkʁɔʏts] ⓘ; DRK) is the national Red Cross Society in Germany . With 4 million members, [1] it is the third largest Red Cross society in the world.
Nurses of the German Red Cross ( Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, DRK) wearing paramilitary uniforms at a leadership school in 1939. The ranks and insignia of the German Red Cross ( Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, abbr. DRK) were the paramilitary rank system used by the national Red Cross Society in Germany during World War II .
During World War II, the Theresienstadt concentration camp was used by the Nazi SS ( German: Schutzstaffel) as a "model ghetto" [1] for deceiving Red Cross representatives about the ongoing Holocaust and the Nazi plan to murder all Jews. The Nazified German Red Cross visited the ghetto in 1943 and filed the only accurate report on the ghetto ...
German Cross in Silver, Gold, and with Diamonds. Post-war de-nazified versions below. The War Order of the German Cross ( German: Der Kriegsorden Deutsches Kreuz ), normally abbreviated to the German Cross or Deutsches Kreuz, was instituted by Adolf Hitler on 28 September 1941. It was awarded in two divisions: in gold for repeated acts of ...
Description. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross is presented as a large iron cross supported by a band that is in the tricolor of the German Empire (Red, White and black). The cross itself has a large swastika in the middle of it with the year 1939 on the bottom arm, while the backside is vacant of any markings.
Balkenkreuz. The Balkenkreuz ( lit. 'beam cross' or 'bar cross') [1] is a straight-armed cross that was first introduced in 1916–1918 and later became the emblem of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) and its branches from 1935 until the end of World War II. It was used by the Wehrmacht Heer (Army), Luftwaffe (Air Force), and Kriegsmarine (Navy).
German Red Cross Decoration. The German Red Cross Decoration ( German: Ehrenzeichen des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes) is a decoration founded in 1922, replaced by the Social Welfare Decoration in 1939 and re-founded in its present form on 8 May 1953. It is awarded by the German Red Cross .
Standard, most basic form of the Iron Cross. The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz, listen ⓘ, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). The design, a black cross pattée with a white or silver outline, was derived from the insignia of the ...