Iron Cross

Iron Cross is the UK’s only magazine of German military history from the First World War to the end of the Second World War. Covering all aspects of German military history including the Imperial German forces of the Great War, the Weimar period and the Nazi period. Iron Cross prides itself on the highest quality production with stunning content in the unique and ground-breaking features, often revealing untold stories and publishing photographs that have never been seen before. Iron Cross features specially commissioned and innovative artwork in all issues.

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Smoking out the Wasps • As the RAF began its night bombing attacks on the Reich during 1940, the Luftwaffe decided it needed to establish night fighting capabilities and an ability to counter those raiders over their British bases. Chris Goss describes the formation of night intruder r units and tallies their claims and losses.

Dornier 17 Z Kauz I & II and Spanner Anlage

The Lost Intruder • Luftwaffe intruder sorties over Britain in 1940 and 1941 were relatively successful, but they were not without risk to the aircrew who flew them. Andy Saunders looks at the loss of one intruder crew who were discovered 37 years after they had failed to return.

Soldier, Hero, Prisoner, Spy • When a decorated German army officer, Hauptmann Helmuth Krämer, was taken prisoner at Stalingrad he was ‘turned’ to work as a spy for the Soviets. Mark Khan tells his remarkable story.

The Stalingrad Myths • Every decisive military campaign in history is shrouded in myth, legend, and often in self-serving distortion of fact. As Christer Bergström explains, only rarely has this phenonemon had such an impact as it does on our understanding of the 1942 German summer offensive and the Battle of Stalingrad.

The Heinkel 177 at Stalingrad

Identifying The Forgotten Soldier • One of the better-known accounts – albeit controversial - to come from German veterans who served on the Eastern Front was a popular autobiography by Guy Sajer. Douglas E. Nash investigates the story behind the soldier author.

Funeral in Umbria • Funerals with military honours became a feature of burials for soldiers of all nations across the 20th and 21st Centuries. However, when two Luftwaffe airmen died in Italy during 1943, their military funeral was astonishingly extravagant as Andy Saunders explains.

The MG 81 • The MG 81 was the gun that replaced the MG 15 as one of the standard on-board defensive weapons used on Luftwaffe aircraft of the Second World War as Bruno Lucarotti explains.

Deep-Trap U-boat Casualties • After the Royal Navy laid extensive and deep minefields around Britain’s coastal waters in 1944 to counter U-boat operations, it was thought that only three German submarines had fallen victim to these mines. However, recent research by Dr Innes McCartney has revealed that the number of losses in this long secret story was much higher.

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Drawing the Wehrmacht • With the Führer’s interest in art, it is unsurprising that the Third Reich embraced the work of Germanic artists and that this extended to the engagement of war artists to record the heroic prowess of Nazi Germany’s military. James Galbraith details the work of one such artist, Josef Arens.

SPECIAL EDITION AVAILABLE IN PAPER OR DIGITAL FORMAT • Military aviation expert and editor of Iron Cross magazine. Andy uncovers untold stories of the Luftwaffe attacks over Britain.

The Erhard Milch Collection • The medals, badges, documents, and memorabilia of Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch are examined by Dietrich Maerz in his regular feature looking at the awards and decorations of the Third Reich.

Heinkel 162 A-2 Volksjäger

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