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Feb 14 Screened for Austrian Military Service; Found Unfit Aug 14 Hitler petitions to serve in Bavarian forces despite Austrian Citizenship 16 Aug 14 Hitler volunteers for 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, also known as the List Regiment after its commander 8 Oct 14 Hitler takes oath to King Ludwig III of Bavaria 29 Oct 14 Sees first action 5 miles east of Ypres Nov 14 Unit near Messines; Assigned war-long role as headquarters messenger Dec 14 Awarded Iron Cross 2nd Class; Refuses to participate in Christmas Truce 1915 Hitler promoted to Lance Corporal; participates in several actions in Artois Sector 7 Oct 16 Wounded in leg at the Somme; Hitler then spends two months at military hospital in Beelitz near Berlin Early 17 On light duty after being wounded 1 Mar 17 Returns to Regiment at Front in Picardy Summer 17 List Regiment returns to Ypres Salient 31 July 17 Battle of Passchendaele begins Fall 17 Regiment rested in Alsace Late 17/Early 18 Regiment sent to Oise/Aisne Sector Mar 18 Operating near Montdidier Aug 18 Awarded Iron Cross 1st Class for service since 1914 as messenger 28 Sep 18 Incident involving Henry Tandy, VC Article Oct 18 Regiment back in Ypres Sector 13 Oct 18 Gassed and temporarily blinded near Wervicq Oct 18 Recovering his sight at Pasewalk, Germany, Hitler witnesses naval mutineers 11 Nov 18 At news of armistice; Hitler reacts bitterly Miscellaneous Comments * Hitler passed up promotion to full corporal because it would result in his being reassigned from the messenger group. * Besides two Iron Crosses, Hitler was awarded the Bavarian Military Medal 3rd class with bar, and later received, as did all wounded soldiers, the Cross of Military Merit. * He never faced American forces during the war. * The List Regiment and the headquarters messenger group suffered tremendous casualties during the war, but Hitler avoided many close calls and regularly indicated he expected to survive the war. * Hitler's life was once spared by a British soldier,

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Hitler served in WW1 with distinction. He served up to 1920 and became active in a political party.

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Yes Adolf Hitler did serve in the German army during the first world war, gaining the rank of a corporal. He was gassed in 1918, but made a full recovery.

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Yes he was a soldier in World War 1.

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a corporal in the German army in WW1

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