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re: A smiling Adolf Hitler caught in the photograph of a large crowd 112 years ago today...
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:24 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:24 pm to RollTide1987
Hitler was actually a war hero. The Iron Cross First Class was a very high award for valor.
Adolf Hitler served as a-lance corporal and dispatch runner in the Bavarian Army during World War I. He earned multiple military decorations for bravery, including the Iron Cross Second Class in 1914 and the rarer Iron Cross First Class in 1918.
Military Service DetailsEnlistment:
Volunteered for the German military in August 1914 despite being an Austrian citizen.
Unit: Served in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment on the Western Front.
Role: Worked primarily as a regimental dispatch runner, exposing him to frequent front-line danger.
Rank: Reached the rank of Gefreiter (lance corporal), which is equivalent to a senior private.
Wounds and Honors:
Iron Cross 2nd Class: Awarded in December 1914.
Wounded: Injured twice during the conflict—once by shrapnel and later temporarily blinded in an October 1918 mustard gas attack.
Iron Cross 1st Class: Received in August 1918, a high decoration for an enlisted soldier at the time.
Adolf Hitler served as a-lance corporal and dispatch runner in the Bavarian Army during World War I. He earned multiple military decorations for bravery, including the Iron Cross Second Class in 1914 and the rarer Iron Cross First Class in 1918.
Military Service DetailsEnlistment:
Volunteered for the German military in August 1914 despite being an Austrian citizen.
Unit: Served in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment on the Western Front.
Role: Worked primarily as a regimental dispatch runner, exposing him to frequent front-line danger.
Rank: Reached the rank of Gefreiter (lance corporal), which is equivalent to a senior private.
Wounds and Honors:
Iron Cross 2nd Class: Awarded in December 1914.
Wounded: Injured twice during the conflict—once by shrapnel and later temporarily blinded in an October 1918 mustard gas attack.
Iron Cross 1st Class: Received in August 1918, a high decoration for an enlisted soldier at the time.
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:25 pm to RollTide1987
We have the benefit of hindsight and technology for modes of telling the horrors of war. No one should ever, ever smile at the prospect lf war. Even if justified, it is a horrid tragedy.
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:28 pm to Darth_Vader
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He had one the cyanide capsules he’d later use to kill himself tested on his German Shepherd “Blondi” to ensure they were effective.
Yes and the Russians would’ve tortured her if he hadn’t
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:28 pm to Gifman
He's hot now.
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:29 pm to RollTide1987
Looks a lot like Trump
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:32 pm to BabyTac
quote:Perhaps Timmy Walz can loan you a fresh tampon to stem the flow of your vaginal hemorrhaging.
Looks a lot like Trump
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:33 pm to RollTide1987
I wonder if young hitler went into his local rod and tackle shop to shoplift fishing reels. nah, i bet even he was above that..
This post was edited on 8/2/26 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:37 pm to weagle1999
quote:
No human is capable of being 100% evil.
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:38 pm to RollTide1987
He kept interesting company.
5 o'clock - there's the guy from the Cheers intro
8 o'clock - a young Bruce Dern
11 o'clock - James Spaeder
Posted on 8/2/26 at 7:49 pm to BabyTac
quote:
Looks a lot like Trump
Posted on 8/2/26 at 9:01 pm to Gifman
his mind was sane but, his soul was mad…
Posted on 8/2/26 at 9:03 pm to RollTide1987
Hitler had a fear of horses and sausage gave him really bad stomach issues. Someone really did tell me this years ago, not sure if its true,
Posted on 8/2/26 at 9:04 pm to JasonDBlaha
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It needs to be studied how he managed to transform a population of 80 million into a radicalized, bloodthirsty, death-cult.
You don’t think this has been studied?
You should peruse the book “They Thought They Were Free: the Germans”
quote:
What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.
quote:
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
Posted on 8/2/26 at 9:17 pm to JasonDBlaha
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It needs to be studied how he managed to transform a population of 80 million into a radicalized, bloodthirsty, death-cult
You lived through a version of this in the United States in 2020-2022.
This post was edited on 8/2/26 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 8/2/26 at 9:52 pm to RollTide1987
a little too ambitious, maybe
Posted on 8/2/26 at 9:54 pm to RollTide1987
Careful, you could get banned from catching Hitler smiling.
Posted on 8/2/26 at 9:59 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:Complicated situation for sure.
He had one the cyanide capsules he’d later use to kill himself tested on his German Shepherd “Blondi” to ensure they were effective.
I’m sure those animal Soviets would have done worse.
Posted on 8/2/26 at 10:06 pm to RollTide1987
quote:Jew didn’t see this coming….
A smiling Adolph Hitler
Posted on 8/2/26 at 10:11 pm to weagle1999
quote:
No human is capable of being 100% evil.
When you listen to every single word Satan and his demons whisper into your ear without question, you can be
Posted on 8/2/26 at 10:13 pm to RollTide1987
This photo has been proven to be doctored to include Hitler.
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