Talk:Pour le Mérite

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I wonder if there was any discussion, particularly during World War, I of the irony of Germany, while being in a bitter war with France, maintaining the tradition of its highest honor being named in and emblazoned with the French language, rather than German. LeoO3 16:02, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

1 Possible bad Link
2 Youngest recipient
3 Oak Leaves
4 Movie

[edit] Possible bad Link

On 8 January 2006 the link to http://www.pourlemerite.org was not working (yielding only an Apache Web Server test page). Jim 01:41, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

It's working now, and there's some disagreement there if von Luckner ever received the award. Opusaug 17:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

The contributors at the von Luckner article have removed the reference to the medal there, so I will remove the reference to him from this article. Feel free to revert if you can substatiate. Opusaug 05:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Youngest recipient

As youngest recipient the page mentions Ernst Juenger at age 23. I am not aware of possible younger recipients still, but Ace Karl Allmenroeder received his shortly after his 21st birthday (and 2 weeks before his death) in 1917. - Diederik, Feb 6 2006

Leutnant Werner Voss received his Medal five days before his 20th birthday, on April 8th, 1917. The comment about Juenger should be removed. John, Aug 18, 2006.

[edit] Oak Leaves

There is a photo of the award with oak leaves, but the article does not mention them. Could someone add some info on them? Seems odd - and the article on General Hutier had a wiki to "oak leaves" that redirected to Iron Cross. He had been presented the oak leaved to his Blue Max in the First World War.Michael Dorosh 20:20, 7 June 2006 (UTC)