[Dogbert41]

Good observation. It may have been historically awarded after he rose to power.

[jmacusa]

No. The German High Command and decades long tradition and reverence for “Die Ritterkreutz’’, “The Iron Cross’’ not even the Fuhrer himself would have warranted it or allowed it.

Hitler was a military dilettante and an outright idiot at strategy at times but he did have reverence for it's insignia and trappings.