The Iron Cross is nothing, you know? The Germans gave out millions of them. You got the second class basically for turning up!
Like I say, Hitler never received any major decoration. If he was standing for election today no-one would reasonably define him as a decorated hero. In pretty much all other armed forces he would have gotten a 'mentioned in dispatches' instead, at most.
If it had been a Pour La Merit, it would have been different!