Hitler's First War
by Thomas Weber
"Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War"
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Details
War:
World War I
Perspective:
Researcher
Military Unit:
Wehrmacht
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Page Count:
450
Published Date:
2011
ISBN13:
9780199226382
Description
Hitler's First War examines for the first time what really happened to Private Hitler and the men of the Bavarian List Regiment of which he was a member. It is a radical revision of the period of Hitler's life that is said to have made him. Looking at the stories of his fellow regimental veterans - an officer who became Hitler's personal adjutant in the 1930s but then offered himself to British intelligence, a soldier-turned-Concentration Camp Commander,Jewish veterans who fell victim to the Holocaust, and others who simply returned to their lives in Bavaria - Thomas Weber presents a Private Hitler very different from the one portrayed in his own self-mythologizing account in Mein Kampf. Instead, we find a man who was shunned by the frontline soldiers of hisregiment as a 'rear area pig' and who was still unsure of his political ideology even at the end of the war in 1918.
