Do watch this film which properly reviews hitler's experience. Most of us have been exposed to some form of bad mouthing of this experience which by the way literally bad mouths the experience of every common soldier engaged in WWI. That is so wrong.
He had an honorable service, and quickly became a messenger and literally became much too valuable to even promote to leadership tasks. At the same time he had zero prior military training and was the original ninety day wonder. This meant that he would need training in military protocols for promotion and any slack ass could be put into that far sooner than a talented messenger who amazingly stays alive.
He spent the war as a messenger and was injured several times. His first deployment was part of a 3000 man force that in several attacks, suffered been reduced to around 600 troops including Hitler. This earned him an iron cross. By the end of the war, because of his capture of several prisoners, this was upgraded to first class rarely given a common soldier. He wore this and the wounded medal for the rest of his life and no other. Any other German veteran would understand its meaning.
He survived four full years of front line duty. Few others did. He obviously was an excellent soldier. He was 24 at war's start and thus 28 at war's end. This experience obviously remade him from his time in Vienna as a vagabound artist.
Hitler was no war hero, but those are thin on the ground, but he was a soldier who certainly did his duty mostly been an obvious target for enemy snipers. No crouching all day in a trench here.
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Lance-Corporal Hitler - WW1 Trench Runner
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