Office of Strategic Services Hitler put in to return to the Front... We chaps in
the line were glad to have him back.. He was one
of the best comrades we ever had. The company
cook excelled himself that night ...... Hitler was
cheery, too. Long after the rest of us had turned
in, he was still feeling about with a flashlight in
the dark spitting the rats on his bayonet.
p. 85, Heinz, Germany' s H.
Hitler's interest in things in general never
dwindled away to just concern for nothing more
than what the day brought forth .....
p. 87, Heinz, Germany's H.
I remember how Hitler and I sometimes, on an extra
black night, would crawl out of the trench to scrounge
round for something to eat. He'd have an empty
petrol can, and I'd have a knife. We hunted round
where they'd been slaughtering horses, and if we
could hit on some poor shot beast which didn't stink
too badly as yet, we'd slice a bit off his quarter.
Hitler'd fill the can with shellhole water, and stumbling
back again to the dug-out, we'd deliver the booty to the cook...
p. 90, Heinz, Germany's H.
(May 4th, 1916)
Hitler had gone off by himself ... he had just surmounted
a slight rise ... when suddenly he heard the whirring of
a machine-gun. He flung himself face downwards on the
ground....he managed to worm his way to the next hole...
within the next ten minutes or so, at least half a dozen
of (Frenchmen), fully armed, appeared... like a flash, he
leapt to his feet, dragged his revolver from his belt,
and leveling it at the enemy, shouted to them to surrender.
'Whichever of you budge, he is a dead man!' Whether the
Frenchmen understood what he said or not, they understood
what he meant, and promptly fell into line as ordered.
'You're my prisoners! March! Hitler signaled the way.
Off they went, Hitler in the rear... 'Sacre nom' exclaimed
one of them...but found himself directly menaced by that
shining barrel....Hitler turned the lot over to the company.....
pp. 91/92, Heinz, Germany's H.
Many of Private Hitler's commanding officers have
written with the highest appreciation of his soldierly
qualities.
"I cannot remember that Private Hitler ever failed in
his duty," writes one of these. "He carried out his
dangerous duties, not only with alacrity but with
distinction," testified another. Generalmajor Engelhardt
gives us this glimpse of him: "Once," he relates, "as I
emerged from the wood at [unreadable] during a fierce
attack, in order to make some observations, Hitler and
an orderly from the Regimental Staff, planted themselves
bang in front of me to shield me with their own bodies
from machine-gun fire." [unreadable] writes, "Politically
I am poles apart from Hitler, but I can testify willingly
enough to his courage in the War, as I thought highly of
him as a comrade in the trenches. I never knew him shirk
his duty, or dodge any danger."
p. 98, Heinz A. Heinz, Germany's H.
Ernst Schmidt on Hitler:
"... I belonged to the trench runners. And because of that,
I came across Hitler. We messengers were a chummy
crowd generally, but three of us seemed to hang together
in particular, Hitler, Bachmann, and I. Personally, I was
very much attracted to Adolf, [unreadable] ... the less as
I had often occasion to notice how he risked his life for
somebody else and never said a syllable about it. Seemed
to think a thing like that was all in a day's work, nothing
to go and make a song about, anyhow. They used to call for
volunteers when any particularly nasty job was on hand,
and Hitler always answered... we all three got wounded at
the same time and place, in October 1918, Hitler and
Bachmann made it somehow to the field-dressing station....
pp. 98/99, Heinz, Germany's H.
1918
Meantime Hitler had turned up, back from Passewalk. We
met, we two, and cemented our old friendship. This was
the first I heard of his being gassed and in the hospital. He
hadn't much to say about the Revolution. but it was plain
to see how bitter he felt ....
"Then, one day, volunteers were called for as guards
for the prisoners' camp at Traunstein, .... Hitler said
to me, 'Say, Schmidt', let's give in our names, you and
me. I can't stick it here much longer.' .... It was mid-
December when we went to Traunstein. They were
mostly Russian prisoners there and a few English....
We hadn't a great deal to do. We mounted guard at
the gate...for 24 hours at a stretch. the next 24 hours
we were off duty.
p. 102, Heinz, Germany's H.
1918 Munich
At the end of January they broke up the camp .... we
returned to barracks at Munich. There...was absolutely
nothing to do. We got perfectly sick of it, especially
Hitler. So one day we....asked to be put on a job. We mus
[sic] have work of some kind! They hunted up something
for us to do - old gas-masks to test. There were whole
mountains of these things. We had only the mouthpiece
to unscrew and examine, and if anything was wrong, to
put it on one side. The work was easy, and to our joy,
we got three marks a day for it. At this rate we could
manage sometimes to go to the Opera. Hitler was a
regular Opera 'fan'. We only bought the cheapest seats,
but that didn't matter. Hitler was lost in the music to
the very last note; blind and deaf to all else around him.
p. 102/103, Heinz, Germany's H.
Time of Bolshevik regime in Bavaria:
"Hitler .... looked on at all this .with uttermost
repugnance.....(he) had already come up against the
communists, for disobeying some of their orders.
They already had an eye on him. It seemed better,
they thought, to get him out of the way.
One morning .... three Red Guards entered the barracks
and sought him out in his room. He was already up and
dressed. As they tramped up the stairs Hitler guessed
what was afoot, so grasped his revolver and prepared
for the encounter. They banged on the door which
immediately opened to them:
"If you don't instantly clear out,' cried Hitler,
brandishing his weapon, "I'll serve you as we served
mutineers at the Front."
The Reds turned instantly and tramped down stairs again.
pp. 105/106, Heinz Germany's H.
One day, shortly after all this business (Communist
regime) was over, I met Hitler in the street. He looked
pretty pinched and peaky .... 'I've just come out of chink,
Schmidt,' he explained. .
....The military in Munich had held themselves a bit
too much allof [sic]. When, the Whites entered a few
stray shots seemed to come from the barracks .....
They took every man in the place, including Hitler,
prisoner ..... A few days later...an officer who had
been at the front ... spotted Hitler...and had him
immediately set free.
pp. 109/110, Heinz, Germany's H.
Hitler remained a soldier and was given the job of
testing every man's political soundness. .... Hitler
was specially fit for this job on account of his
political acumen, and because he was considered a
good judge of men.
p. 110, Heinz, Germany's H.
He put the things through so well, that later on they
promoted him to Regimental Instructor. Hitler had
now to hold regular classes to instruct the men on
political matters, and in a true sense of patriotism.
He had to eradicate the last traces of the poison which
had led to .... revolutionary measures .... Hitler did all
this extraordinarily well. He discovered his own gift
for public speaking and exposition. He rather imagined
he had such a talent; but these classes in Barracks were
useful enough to exercise and prove it.
...... After a few more months he returned to civilian
life... He had already joined the Deutsche Arbeiter Partei ....
p. 110, Heinz, Germany's H.
.... he's passionately fond of animals. One off the Party
friends had the lucky idea of us giving him a dog for his
birthday in 1920. He rather thought a Deutscher
Schaeferhund would be the thing and we bought one
remarkable for size rather than for breed .... Hitler
was awfully pleased with it. But the dog was ill .....
and died. So early next year somebody else sent him a
young Wolfshund. Hitler fell in love with him, and they
became inseparable companions. When, later on, he
got more dogs, (they are still living at his country place),
this one remained his prime favorite. He kept him ten
years or more and then some enemy managed to poison
him - some Communist belike. He must have known
that to kill Hitler's dog would hit him harder than any
political revenge ....
During the war a little dog deserted from the English
lines and came over to us. Hitler adopted him and
called him ' Foxl ' .....
p. 111, Heinz, Germany's H.
Hitler...didn't try to bring any political influence to bear
on one at that time .... he certainly did live up to his
convictions .... He was a walking example of the motto ....
'All for one, one for all' ....
p. 112, Heinz, Germany' s H.
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Hitler Source Book
Germany's Hitler
by Heinz Heinz
(Part 4 of 5)