Orders and Medals
Prussian / Imperial German
- Pour le Mérite, 12 January 1916, after his eighth victory
- Iron Cross, First Class, January 27, 1915
- Iron Cross, Second Class, December 10, 1914
- Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Knight’s Cross with Swords, 1 November 1916, after his sixth victory
- Life Saving Medal, 12 December 1915, for saving Albert DePlace from drowning in the canal, 29 August 1915
Duchy of Anhalt
- House Order of Albert the Bear, Knight’s Cross, First Class
- House Order of Albert the Bear, Knight’s Cross, Second Class
- Friedrich Cross, Second Class
Kingdom of Bavaria
- Military Merit Order, Fourth Class with Swords
Other
- Military Order for Bravery, Third Class (Kingdom of Bulgaria), 9 August 1916
- Turkish War Medal of 1915 (Ottoman Empire), awarded personally by Enver Pascha, 15 July 1916
- Imtiyaz Medal (Ottoman Empire)
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“The newspapers, especially those in the East, are amazingly superficial and ... a large number of news gatherers are either cynics at heart or are following the orders and the policies of the owners of their papers.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.”
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