The Pour le Mérite, also informally known as the Blue Max after German WWI flying ace Max Immelmann, is an order of merit established in 1740 by King Frederick II of Prussia. Alongside the extinct Ord
Pour le Merite badge 3 Tallinn Museum of Orders
Orden Pour le Merite Vredesklasse
Pour le Mérite with oak leaves
Grand Cross of the Pour le Mérite
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 t
Pour le Mérite
…Wilhelm Frankl, German flying ace with 20 victories, one of the first German Jewish recipients in World War I. Hermann Göring, decorated as an ace pilot for continuous courage in action in June 1918, finishing World War I with 22 air victories and later the third and final…
Göring at the Nuremberg trials, c. 1946
Göring in 1907, at age 14
Göring with the Pour le Mérite and several awards
Göring in 1918 as commander of Jagdgeschwader 1 beside his Fokker D VII (F) 5125/18. He holds a walking stick Geschwader Stock that had been owned by Manfred von Richthofen.