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Learn about the German Red Cross, the third largest Red Cross society in the world, with 4 million members and a wide range of humanitarian activities. Find out how it evolved from a voluntary civil assistance organization to a Nazi-aligned institution and a postwar humanitarian actor.
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.
Bedřich Fritta's caricature of Theresienstadt living conditions. Theresienstadt was a hybrid concentration camp and ghetto established by the SS in November 1941 in the fortress town Terezín, located in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech lands).
The German Cross was a decoration instituted by Adolf Hitler in 1941 for repeated acts of bravery or service in World War II. It had two divisions: gold and silver, and was higher than the Iron Cross First Class but lower than the Knight's Cross.
Learn about the orders, decorations, and medals of Nazi Germany, from political and civilian to military and war honors. See the names, dates, descriptions, and numbers of recipients of each award, including the Iron Cross and the Swastika.
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was the highest military and paramilitary award of Nazi Germany during World War II. It was a neck decoration with a swastika and a year on the cross, and had four grades with different combinations of oak leaves, swords and diamonds.
Balkenkreuz is a straight-armed cross that was the emblem of the Wehrmacht and its branches, including the Luftwaffe, from 1935 to 1945. It was based on the cross of the Teutonic Order and had different forms and colors depending on the context and visibility.
On 19 April 1945, the White Buses started driving prisoners from concentration camps in Germany. As a young citizen, Stig Svensson was a volunteer driver on one of the white Red Cross buses (not the one in the picture).