Hitler in WWI

[hellothere]

Did you Know that Hitler's (he was a corporal at the time) Dugout was hit by a shell in the somme? It would of been extreamly lucky for the world if the shell was a larger caliber or the dugout roof was smaller. Note; he escaped with only splinters of metal in his face. Ouch!

 

[timshatz]

Think the guy was wounded a couple of times including being gassed at least once. Gotta believe some dark spirit was looking out for him

 

[Hunter368]

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 (equivalent to Private in German in WW1).

Also in 1917 he received a wound badge.

In 1918 he was temporarily blinded by a poison gas attack.

 

[Soundbreaker Welch?]

Something awful in his destiny drove him on.....

 

[Hunter368]

Something awful in his destiny drove him on.....

I have a book on just Hitler's aliments and medical problems. Its a thick book, but interesting read.

 

[Soundbreaker Welch?]

Did the Allies demand Hitler's doctors give up the medical information or were they quite eager to tell about the problems of their late dictator?

 

[Hunter368]

Did the Allies demand Hitler's doctors give up the medical information or were they quite eager to tell about the problems of their late dictator?

From what I have read (I do not claim to know 100%) they gave up the information willingly.

 

[hellothere]

Also on the topic of hitler being wounded, a bomb plot in '44 blew his trousers of and half of his moustach

 

[mosquitoman]

Stauffenberg and the bomb plot

 

[Pisis]

They attempted an assasination on him numerous times, unfortunately never succeed.

 

[mosquitoman]

Yeah, all they did was make him more paranoid

 

[102first_hussars]

They attempted an assasination on him numerous times, unfortunately never succeed.

Yeah, you know how those guys responsible were punished? they were hung by piano wire, I think they gave a gun to Rommel to shoot himself with but the others were hung

 

[mosquitoman]

It wasn't a gun, it was poison

 

[Pisis]

Yeah, he poisioned himself before they could catch him.

 

[mosquitoman]

nah, he was told take the poison and be buried with full military honours and they would leave his family alone or go on trial and have every indignity that the others had and have his family "taken care of"

 

[plan_D]

MM has got the story correct. Several attempts were made on Hitler's lift in World War II. One other was planting a bomb in his personal Ju-52, but the bomb froze at altitude and didn't go off.

In World War I, a British private had ready aim of Hitler but allowed the injured corporal to escape. The said private was awarded the VC later in the war, and was the focal point of a famous painting. This painting Hitler had in his mountain retreat, the Eagles Nest. I posted a story about it in the World War I forum.

 

[kiwimac]

Interestingly both Hitler and Mussolini were decorated WW1 veterans. Hitler was considered 'lucky' by his kamaraden. Both men were brave, resourceful soldiers.

 

[R988]

In a way though we need people like Hitler to come along to allow us some perspective, we probably wouldn't be where we are today without him, the world would probably look quite different as well.

 

[102first_hussars]

No we dont need people like hitler, Ill admit his come to be was a direct result of our ignorance, but the world would have been better off if the bomb under the oak table actually killed him

 

[Twitch]

Even if Adolph Hitler would have been killed there would have been another person that would have been "hitleresque." If you believe in fate to any part or that some things are pre-destined to a degree it would have been a differnt guy with a different name with generally the same results.