Question: One of the surviving Nazi leaders interrogated in Camp Ashcan received what award for his pilot skills in World War I?

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German submarine U-977: German submarine "U-977" was a World War II Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" which escaped to Argentina after Germany's surrender.  The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to many legends, apocryphal stories and conspiracy theories that together with "U-530" it had transported escaping Nazi leaders (including Hitler himself) and/or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a 66-day passage without surfacing, that it had made a secret voyage to Antarctica, or even that it would be involved in the sinking of Brazilian cruiser "Bahia" as the last act of the Battle of the Atlantic.

Catholic bishops in Nazi Germany: Catholic bishops in Nazi Germany differed in their responses to the rise of Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust during the years 1933–1945.  In the 1930s, the Episcopate of the Catholic Church of Germany comprised 6 Archbishops and 19 bishops while German Catholics comprised around one third of the population of Germany served by 20,000 priests.  In the lead up to the 1933 Nazi takeover, German Catholic leaders were outspoken in their criticism of Nazism.  Following the Nazi takeover, the Catholic Church sought an accord with the Government, was pressured to conform, and faced persecution.  The regime had flagrant disregard for the Reich concordat with the Holy See, and the episcopate had various disagreements with the Nazi government, but it never declared an official sanction of the various attempts to overthrow the Hitler regime.  Ian Kershaw wrote that the churches "engaged in a bitter war of attrition with the regime, receiving the demonstrative backing of millions of churchgoers.  Applause for Church leaders whenever they appeared in public, swollen attendances at events such as Corpus Christi Day processions, and packed church services were outward signs of the struggle of ... especially of the Catholic Church - against Nazi oppression".  While the Church ultimately failed to protect its youth organisations and schools, it did have some successes in mobilizing public opinion to alter government policies.

Animal welfare in Nazi Germany: There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany among the country's leadership.  Adolf Hitler and his top officials took a variety of measures to ensure animals were protected.  Many Nazi leaders, including Hitler and Hermann Göring, were supporters of animal rights and conservation.  Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime.  Heinrich Himmler made an effort to ban the hunting of animals.  Göring was a professed animal lover and conservationist, who, on instructions from Hitler, committed Germans who violated Nazi animal welfare laws to concentration camps.  In his private diaries, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels described Hitler as a vegetarian whose hatred of the Jewish and Christian religions in large part stemmed from the ethical distinction these faiths drew between the value of humans and the value of other animals; Goebbels also mentions that Hitler planned to ban slaughterhouses in the German Reich following the conclusion of World War II.

Hermann Göring: Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; ] ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.  A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, he was a recipient of the "Pour le Mérite".  He was the last commander of "Jagdgeschwader" 1, the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen.

Belgrade Special Police: The Belgrade Special Police (, SP UGB) was a Serbian collaborationist police organisation directed and controlled by the German Gestapo (German: "Geheime Staatspolizei" ) in the German-occupied territory of Serbia from 1941 to 1944 during World War II.  It grew out of the Belgrade General Police of the interwar period, which had a significant role in the suppression of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia after that organisation was banned in 1920.  Eighty per cent of work of the SP UGB related to suspected communists.  It initially had a responsibility to investigate other groups, such as the Chetniks of Draža Mihailović, but ended up cooperating with Mihailović's Chetnik movement.  The SP UGB had significant autonomy in who it arrested, tortured and interrogated, and who it sent to the Banjica concentration camp, but did not have the power to release prisoners from the camp, a power which was retained by the Gestapo.  The SP UGB exchanged information with a number of different agencies, including the German military intelligence service, the "Abwehr", and other collaborationist organisations such as the Serbian Volunteer Corps.

Nuremberg Diary: Nuremberg Diary (ISBN  ) is Gustave Gilbert's account of and interviews he conducted during the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi leaders, including Hermann Göring, involved in World War II and the Holocaust.  Dr. Gilbert, a fluent German speaker, served as a prison psychologist in Nuremberg, where he had close contact with those on trial.  The text is the verbatim notes Gilbert took immediately after having conversations with the prisoners, information backed up by essays he asked them to write about themselves.  The diary was first published in 1947 and reissued in 1961, just before the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.

Guy Griffiths: Guy Beresford Kerr "Griff" Griffiths (6 June 1915 – 12 July 1999) was a Royal Marine pilot.  He served as a pilot during the Second World War and gained notoriety as a prisoner of war for using his artistic skills to forge documents and provide misinformation by feeding Nazi intelligence with fake sketches of British aircraft.  After the war he continued to fly various types of aircraft as a test pilot and has the distinction of being the first Royal Marines officer to fly a helicopter.

Jesuits and Nazi Germany: At the outbreak of World War II, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) had some 1700 members in the German Reich, divided into three provinces: Eastern, Lower and Upper Germany.  Nazi leaders had some admiration for the discipline of the Jesuit order, but opposed its principles.  Of the 152 Jesuits murdered by the Nazis across Europe, 27 died in captivity or its results, and 43 in the concentration camps.

Camp Ashcan: Central Continental Prisoner of War Enclosure No. 32, code-named Ashcan, was an Allied prisoner-of-war camp in the "Palace Hotel" of Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg during World War II.  Operating from May to August 1945, it served as a processing station and interrogation center for the 86 most prominent surviving Nazi leaders prior to their trial in Nuremberg, including Hermann Göring and Karl Dönitz.

German submarine U-530: German submarine "U-530" was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.  She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg on 8 December 1941 as yard number 345, launched on 28 July 1942 and commissioned on 14 October 1942 with "Kapitänleutnant" Kurt Lange in command, who led her in six patrols.  Lange was replaced in January 1945 by "Oberleutnant zur See" Otto Wermuth, who led her escape to Argentina after Germany's surrender.  The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to many legends, apocryphal stories, and conspiracy theories that together with "U-977" it had transported escaping Nazi leaders and/or Nazi gold to South America, or even that it would be involved in the sinking of Brazilian cruiser "Bahia" as the last act of the Battle of the Atlantic.

Supporting paragraphs: Camp Ashcan Hermann Göring
Answer: Pour le Mérite