“Have I Shown You My Iron Cross?”

I recently heard a story that I’m pretty confident is true. Most of us have seen pictures of the warehouses at Auschwitz. The Nazis collected all the personal effects—shoes, clothes, jewelry, toys, etc.—of those who died in the gas chambers. There were warehouses full of these items. I heard that the Auschwitz collection included a large box of German Iron Crosses. These crosses were one of the highest military honors a German
