He was, therefore, attached to regimental headquarters, which means he was spared the worst of the mud and squalor of the trenches. His job was to carry messages from the regimental headquarters to the front line.
#SIDEWRITER BRITISH ARMY RATING FREE#
His position as a Meldegänger, or dispatch runner, was relatively privileged, though it was not free from danger. Hitler fought mostly against the British during the First World War. Those who did not surrender were mowed down”. They poured out like ants from an ant heap, and then we attacked…Many came out with their hands up. Later in the letter, he described with obvious relish how he was amongst “dead and wounded Englishmen… Again and again one of our shells landed in the English trench. On 5 February 1915, during a heavy battle, Hitler wrote to an acquaintance in Munich, describing how he looked forward to an attack on the British lines, “… tomorrow we attack the English. “Tonight, the 20 th, we are going on a 4 day train journey, probably to Belgium. On 20 October 1914, the young Private Hitler wrote to his landlady in Munich. From the start, he seems to have regarded Britain as Germany’s main enemy, though this could have been because his regiment spent most of the war facing British and Imperial troops, rather than the French and Belgians. When the First World War broke out, Hitler volunteered to serve in the Bavarian army. The first time that that he felt he had to decide whether to support the British Empire or not, he supported its enemies, though this is hardly surprising, as most of the German-speaking press and public were viciously Anglophobic throughout the conflict. As mentioned above, he followed the Boer War, which took place from his tenth to his thirteenth years, and played games with his friends based on the exploits of the Boers. In Mein Kampf, he says that, as a young boy, he thought that, in the international world of the future, “the English could supply the merchants, the Germans the administrative officials, and the Jews would the owners”. According to a Swedish businessman, Birger Dahlerus, who worked with Göring in an effort to prevent the Second World War, Hitler was “a man whose real knowledge of Britain was nil”. He knew essentially no English, though this did not stop him holding the opinions that “the English language lacks the ability to express thoughts that surpass the order of concrete things”, and that English spelling was hopelessly unphonetic. Hitler never visited Britain or any part of the British Empire.
0 kommentar(er)
