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von Luckner did not win a Pour le Merite

As explained in "Medals often mistaken for the Pour le Mérite" on this site:

"(vonLuckner) has an impressive German Navy dress coat filled with medals and honors and wears a Maltese Cross at his throat in the fashion that one would wear the Pour le Mérite. But the cross has such a high reflection of light in the photo that it would be easy to assume that he is wearing a the Pour le Mérite. Instead he is wearing another great honor at his throat, the Ehrenritterkreuz (Honor Knights Badge). It looks pretty similar to the Pour le Mérite,..."


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