What was Hitler's role in WW1?

Answer 1

He was in the German Army as a corporal (they did't promote him inspite of his gallantry as they found him weird).

Ironically, Hitler dodged enlistment in the Austrian Army, citing health reasons.

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Hitler saw active service in France and Belgium as a messenger for the regimental headquarters of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment (also called Regiment List after its first commander), which exposed him to enemy fire. Unlike his fellow soldiers, Hitler reportedly never complained about the food or hard conditions, preferring to talk about art or history. He also drew some cartoons and instructional drawings for the army newspaper. His behaviour as a soldier was considered somewhat sloppy, but his regular duties required taking dispatches to and from fighting areas and he was twice decorated for his performance of these duties. He received the Iron Cross, Second Class in December 1914 and the Iron Cross, First Class in August 1918, an honour rarely given to a Gefreiter. However, because of the perception of "a lack of leadership skills" on the part of some of the regimental staff, as well as Hitler's unwillingness to leave regimental headquarters (which would have been likely in event of promotion), he was never promoted to Unteroffizier. Other historians, however, say that the reason he was not promoted is that he did not have German citizenship. His duty station at regimental headquarters, while often dangerous, gave Hitler time to pursue his artwork. During October 1916 in northern France, Hitler was wounded in the leg, but returned to the front in March 1917. He received the Wound Badge later that year, as his injury was the direct result of hostile fire. Sebastian Haffner, referring to Hitler's experience at the front, suggests he did have at least some understanding of the military.

On October 15, 1918, shortly before the end of the war, Hitler was admitted to a field hospital, temporarily blinded by a poison gas attack. The English psychologist David Lewis and Bernhard Horstmann indicate the blindness may have been the result of a hysteria. Hitler later said it was during this experience that he became convinced the purpose of his life was to "save Germany". Some scholars, notably Lucy Dawidowicz,argue that an intention to mass murder Europe's Jews was fully formed in Hitler's mind at this time, though he probably hadn't thought through how it could be done.

Answer 4

Hitler was a solider in the German army in WW1. He received to iron crosses for his accomplishments. He was also wounded during the war.
During his long recuperation, the Germans conceded and WW1 ended. He never accepted the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

Answer 5

Hitler was a "message carrier" running back and forth from the trenches to the main headquarters with messages which was a very, very dangerous job to have.

He rose to the rank of a corporal, spent time in a hospital after being nearly blinded in a gas attack, and earned the Iron Cross, 2nd Class for his Bravery in that war.

He was a "Hero" to the German people! - quite unlike Bush who deserted during Viet Nam!

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Hitler was a decorated German soldier in WWI. His rise to power came after WWI at the end of the 1920s as hyperinflation and an onerous disarmament of Germany by the Treaty of Versailles fed the flames of resurgent German hypernationalism. If the German Workers Party, the predecessor of the Nazi Party, existed during WWI, it was an insignificant ultra-nationalist cabal. After Germany's ignominious loss, Hitler blamed Germany's failures on a conspiracy of the Bolsehviks and the international Jewish control of the banking system. He agitated to ignore the Treaty. With his charismatic speaking style and vision for a new German Empire, he took over the tiny ultra-nationalist German Workers Party, changed its name to the Natonal Socialist German Workers Party, and tried to overthrow the government in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch. He was arrested as a traitor. It was during his imprsonment that he wrote Mein Kampf. When he got out, he resumed his leadership role in an increasingly popular but still minorty Nazi Party. One important tool were the SA or Brown Shirt thugs who would rough up anybody who opposed Hitler and any Jews unlucky enough to cross their path during one of their increasingly violent rampages. The Nazi Party got on the order of 35% of the popular vote in 1928. After the Reichstag was bombed, probably by his own henchmen, he said Germany was under threat by terrorists within and took over the country from an aging President von Hindenburg in 1933. He became undisputed Leader or Fuehrer. Once he was in charge, he beagn to organize the Black Shirts or SS to reassert his control over the SA. His secret police or Gestapo tortured to obtain confessions of disloyalty. Those who lived through the experience were transported to concentration camps under brutal conditions where many died of exposure, disease, or starvation after working as slave labor. Under the Nuremberg Laws Jews were systematically purged from Geman universities, their homes and wealth were confiscated, and, when he couldn't export them to the U.S. with a $10,000 per person bounty to pay for his war effort, because the U.S. refused to alter its immigration policies, he hatched the scheme for the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem. This is outlined in chilling detail at the Waannsee Conference chaired by Heydrich. To test the resolve of the victors in WWI, he reclaimed the Rhineland from France, annexed Austria, and reclaimed the Sudentland from Czechoslovakia, all on the pretext that these were German lands that had been illegally annexed away from the German Empire before or after WWI. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed Hitler when he said that his ambitions for additional lands had been satisfied with the annex of the Sudentland, and Chamberlain signed off on this peace treaty in September 1938, declaring peace in our time. Emboldened by his successes and the perceived weakness of the democratoc victors in WWI, he then began to reconstitute his army, navy, and air force well beyond the limits set forth in the Treaty with the goal of annexing the Danzig region of Poland. Britain finally realized that there were no limits to Hitler's ambitions and drew the line in the sand at the Polish border. After a month of phony war, the Germans crossed that line on September 1, 1939, with a blitzkrieg that destroyed the valiant but outgunned Polish Army in a week. The Brits and France came to the defense of Poland. WWII was on. The rest, as they say, is history.

Answer 9

he was a corporal ( low rank enlisted man) in the Austrian army....he was Austrian, not German by birth; was gasssed in 1918 and in a hospital when Germany surrendered