The picture of the “Great Game,” or rather, a conspiracy, as a result of which the ruling circles of Germany imposed a fascist dictatorship on the German people, will be incomplete if we do not at least briefly show the role of the military caste in the rise of the Nazis and their Fuhrer.
Hitler was always associated with the Reichswehr. We have already written that his “political” career began with the fact that he became an informant for the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment. In the core of the NSDAP there were many professional soldiers, such as Göring. Speaking at the Munich coup trial in 1924, Hitler specifically emphasized: “When I found out that the Green Police were shooting at us, I felt happy. At least it wasn't the Reichswehr."
However, at different stages, the connections of the Nazis with the leadership of the army either strengthened or weakened. In 1920, when Seeckt became head of the Reichswehr, these ties were greatly weakened. In 1927, the Ministry of War forbade the recruitment of NSDAP members, both privates and officers, into the army, arguing that the Nazis "set as their goal the overthrow of the constitutional state regime of the German Empire."
In the late twenties, Hitler began to take decisive steps to "conquer" the Reichswehr. In May 1929, he delivered a speech in Munich on the topic "National Socialism and the Reichswehr". This speech was intended to undermine Seeckt's doctrine of military non-intervention in public affairs. Citing the Italian military as an example, Hitler rhetorically exclaimed: “In 1922, the Italian army did not say: “Our only task is to take care of peace and order.” Instead, she said: "Our task is to secure the future of the Italian people." Then came the already familiar motif - Hitler frightened the leadership of the Reichswehr with communism, “If, because of your surprisingly apolitical position, the left wins, then you can write a book called The End of the German Reichswehr.”
Hitler's speech was reprinted verbatim in a special issue of the Völkischer Beobachter for the army. After that, Hitler wrote several articles in the new Nazi monthly Deutscher Wergeist, established especially for the Reichswehr. In these articles, he repeated the theses of the speech, supplementing them with a promise immediately after coming to power to increase the Reichswehr and return it to its leading positions in the state. Hitler's speeches were the signal for increased Nazi propaganda in the army.
In 1930, the trial of three Reichswehr officers - Scheringer, Ludin and Wendt - who were associated with the SA and the Nazi Party, took place in Leipzig. The officers were accused of conducting Nazi propaganda in the army and recruiting supporters of the NSDAP. The Nazi Hans Frank, who acted as defense counsel at this trial, summoned Hitler to testify. Of course, the process became a political platform for the Fuhrer. However, it is of a special kind. The defendants, who expected to hear speeches in their defense, were greatly disappointed. The Fuhrer began and ended with assurances of his loyalty to the army. "I have always defended the point of view that any attempt to corrupt the Reichswehr is meaningless." In the end, he said: "If we come to power, we will see to it that a powerful mass army grows out of the present Reichswehr."
In the early thirties, the German military, like industrialists and politicians, embarked on adventures. Already under General Trainer, who by that time had also become the Minister of the Interior (combining this post with the post of Minister of War), in fact, there was no fight against Nazi influence within the army . However, if the Trainer still occupied the position of waiting and "non-intervention", then his then ally General Schleicher, who enjoyed enormous influence among the senior officers and in the inner circle of the Hindenburg, as we know, openly took a course towards collusion with the Nazis.
In 1931, Schleicher began to negotiate with Röhm and Gregor Strasser. The prerequisite for these negotiations was the lifting of the ban on recruiting members of the NSDAP into the army as privates and officers (January 1931). In response to this, Hitler officially banned stormtroopers from participating in street battles (February 1931), which, however, was pure fiction, since the SA units were brought up on the slogan: "Who owns the street, owns the power in Germany."
The "dual" policy once again served Hitler well - the functionaries of the NSDAP and the SA knew that official orders should not always be followed. And so they did. And it was no secret to anyone.
In 1932, the Reichswehr finally took the side of Hitler. The circumstances leading up to this decision were rather dramatic, and their immediate result was the resignation of Coach, who, although he made concessions to the Nazis, still did not overstep certain limits. After the resignation of the Coach, the most adventurist elements, led by the schemer Schleicher, came to the leadership of the Reichswehr.
The whole thing started again with SA. In November 1931, the authorities in the province of Hesse discovered documents indicating that in the event of the formation of a Nazi government, the SA and the NSDAP intended to establish a reign of terror in the country. These documents are called the "Boxheim Documents" because they were found at the Boxheimerhof Villa. When the documents were released, Hitler officially retracted them. Similar documents (Röhm's orders and corresponding maps of the area) were also found at the headquarters of the Prussian stormtroopers, and later in Pomerania.
The governments of Prussia, Bavaria and other states presented the Coach with an ultimatum - either he would ban the SA, or they themselves would begin to act. On April 14, 1932, an order was issued to ban the SA, SS and all other military organizations of the Nazis. The order stated: "These organizations are a kind of private army, which forms a state within a state and is a constant source of anxiety for the civilian population ... To maintain an organized armed force is the exclusive prerogative of the state."
The Coach's order was half-hearted. As Goebbels boastfully declared, the attack aircraft only "changed their shirts" - brown to white. No actual reprisals were taken against them. Since the NSDAP was not dissolved, the attack aircraft had a place to "wait out" the hard times. However, even this half-hearted ban did not please part of the military. General Schleicher all this time did not stop negotiations with Rem and with the Fuhrer of the SA in Berlin, Count Geldorf. After the Coach's order was made public, Schleicher negotiated with Hindenburg behind his back. The Coach's fate was sealed. A tacit shambles began against him in the army, as well as in the War Ministry itself. And it was his old friend Schleicher who orchestrated all of this... The Coach-Schleicher story was the first, but by no means the last story of how one German politician “devoured” another, clearing the path to power for the Fuhrer. Schleicher himself became a victim of General Blomberg, who, before Hitler came to power, helped the Nazis overthrow Schleicher ...
The top of the Reichswehr also played a fatal role at the very last stage of Hitler's struggle for power. Before Hindenburg appointed the “Bohemian Corporal” as Reich Chancellor, the German military clique said their “yes” directly. On the eve of Hitler's last meeting with Hindenburg, one of the leaders of the Reichswehr, Blomberg, was hastily summoned from Geneva to the presidential palace. Blomberg, who had long since established contact with Hitler through his chief of staff, Reichenau, and divisional priest Müller (in the Third Reich, Müller had become an imperial bishop for his "charitable deeds") assured the 86-year-old president that the Reichswehr wanted to see Hitler as Chancellor. For this, Blomberg became Minister of War. (Which, however, as we will see later, did not last long. The time came when Hitler dealt with him).
In September 1933, 7 months after coming to power, Hitler said: “On this day, we want to especially thank our army, because we know for sure that if the troops had not stood in the days of our revolution (it means the seizure of power and fascist terror, following him. - Auth.) on our side, then today we would not be standing here.
Kurt Bachmann's book The Truth About Hitler shows why the German working class, weakened by years of unemployment, divided by the inconsistent policies of the Social Democrats, failed to give a worthy rebuff to those in power in the country and their direct henchmen - the Nazis. The book is structured as a dialogue between a young West German citizen W. Reckert and K. Bachmann.
« W. Reckert. In 1920, the working class, acting in concert against the Kapp putsch, blocked the path to the establishment of a military dictatorship. Why, in the period before 1933, did unity of action against the Nazis not come about?
K. Bachman. Again and again the KKE proposed the creation of a unity front to fight against crises and fascism. When the Social Democrat-led government of Prussia was overthrown in a coup d'état led by von Palen on July 20, 1932, Ernst Thalmann's party proposed to the SPD and the ADGB (General Union of German Trade Unions. - Auth.) to respond with a general strike.
All subsequent proposals for united action were rejected by the right-wing leadership of the SPD. It was guided by a policy of cooperation with big capital and rejected the extra-parliamentary struggle of the masses so as not to intimidate the bourgeoisie. It pursued a policy of "lesser evil" in parliament, instead of developing alternatives against the policy of crisis and the fascist danger. Unity of action was especially hampered by the fact that the Social Democratic leaders themselves ordered the use of terror by state power, as happened on May 1, 1929 in Berlin and on Alton Bloody Sunday in July 1932.
W. Reckert. It was then that the police, under the command of the Social Democrats, fired at the peaceful demonstrations of the workers ...
K. Bachman. All this made it very difficult to find starting points for unity of action. This also explains such mistakes of the KKE as the wrong thesis about "social fascism". But this did not prevent her from recognizing the danger of fascism for our people, as well as for peace in Europe, and calling for anti-fascist unity of action at a time when fascism stood on the threshold.
On January 28, 1933, Reich President P. von Hindenburg forced the Schleicher government to resign and instructed Hitler to form a government. When the KPD called for a general strike on 30 January 1933, the SPD leadership demanded calm and discipline. The general strike, so feared by the Nazis and those who stood behind them, did not take place. It was only when it was already too late that the leaders of the SPD, such as Rudolf Breitscheid, recognized the need for unity of action, too late, often only in the concentration camps in the face of SS terror. For the subsequent course of our history, it was fatal that the unity of action of the working class was not achieved. Therefore, the working class could not prevent either the coming of fascism or the war.”
The history of behind-the-scenes struggle and intrigues for the transfer of power to Hitler remained a deep secret for a long time. In 1933, only a few were dedicated to it: industrialists, part of the generals. The German people were told only one thing - President Hindenburg made Hitler Chancellor of Germany ... And then the Nazi propaganda machine, pumped up with the money of German millionaires, performed one of its "miracles". She portrayed the will of Hindenburg and the will of the masters of Germany behind it as the will of all Germans. For this purpose, a "popular rejoicing", an all-German celebration, was staged.
Events unfolded like this. On the morning of January 30, Hitler went to the presidential office to Hindenburg. Standing at the window of the Kaiserhof Hotel, Hitler's Berlin residence, Goebbels, Rem, Goering and others were waiting for their Fuhrer to come out. A few minutes later, Hitler appeared as Chancellor. One hundred meters that separated the door of the presidential office from the door of the hotel, he drove a car. According to Goebbels' diary, he (Hitler) had tears in his eyes.
Now it was up to Goebbels and the other Fuhrers of the Nazi Party and stormtroopers. And they fulfilled their task - they drove thousands of adherents from the outskirts of Berlin and mobilized thousands of people in the capital itself. All evening until late at night, columns of attack aircraft with lit torches walked through the streets of Berlin: they appeared from the Tiergarten, passed through the Brandenburg Gate and, minting a step, moved along the Wilhelmstrasse. Hundreds of drummers were drumming. Stormtroopers yelled the song "Horst Wessel". The sidewalks were thronged with thousands of people who uttered cries of delight. Hindenburg stood in one of the windows of the presidential office, and Hitler stood in the other window. Every second Hitler threw his hand forward - he greeted the attack aircraft and the crowd with a "German salute."
On this day, the fate of Germany was in the hands of a handful of adventurers representing the most aggressive reactionary circles of the ruling classes of Germany - the German monopolists, the military, the big farmers.
The Red Army soldier Hitler, during the defense of the 174.5 height of the Tiraspol fortification district, destroyed the enemy with his fire for eight days. As a machine gunner, he supported the advance of his platoon with fire. Being surrounded and wounded, comrade. Hitler fired until he ran out of ammunition, after which, without throwing his weapons, he got out to his own, in total destroying more than a hundred Wehrmacht soldiers. For his feat, Hitler was awarded the medal "For Courage".
On the fields of the Great Patriotic War also fought: Major General of the Red Army Borman, Red Army soldier Goering, Art. technician-lieutenant Hess - and other comrades. It was probably not easy to live and fight with such names. Glory and eternal memory to the heroes!
AWARD SHEET
Surname, name and patronymic ______ Hitler Semyon Konstantinovich
Military rank_____ Red Army soldier
Position, part _____ gunner of the 73OPB machine gun of the Tiraspol UR
Presented for _____ award with a medal for military merit
1. Year of birth_____1922
2. Nationality_____Jew
3. Since when has he been in the Red Army _____ since 1940
4. Party membership _____ member of the Komsomol
5. Participation in battles (where and when) _____ in the Tiraspol fortified. area
6. Does he have injuries and concussions _____
7. What was previously awarded (for what distinctions) _____ was not previously awarded
I. Brief, specific statement of personal military feat or merit
Being a gunner of an easel machine gun comrade. Hitler continuously destroyed hundreds of enemy with his well-aimed fire for 8 days.
When attacking a height of 174.5 comrade. Hitler with his fire Art. the machine gun supported the advance of the platoon’s page, however, the enemy, having come from the rear, surrounded the platoon and dispersed it, comrade. Hitler with his machine gun, already wounded, was left alone among the enemy, but he did not lose his head, but fired until he used up all the cartridges, and then crawled among the enemy at a distance of 10 km ...
II. Conclusion of superiors
Tov. Hitler S.K. being a gunner Art. machine gun showed exceptional composure, stamina and courage in battle when destroying the enemy. Tov. Hitler is a well-trained machine gunner and a staunch fighter. Tov. Hitler deserves the medal "For Courage".
Commander (Chief) ___________
III. Conclusion of the Military Council of the Army
Worthy of the medal "FOR COURAGE"
Commander Primorsk. Army Lieutenant General Safronov
Member of the Military Council Brigadier Commissar Kuznetsov
Note that at the beginning of the war, awards for very serious feats were given rather "modestly" (August 19 - two months of the war had not yet passed, four more difficult years were ahead of the country), rather than later, when the army had already fought more, and people knew "that how much". It is very remarkable that Comrade Hitler destroyed many fascists and retreated to his own, having used up all the ammunition and not abandoning the machine gun, in 1943-44-45. for such a high performance, he would most likely receive an order.
Borman Alexander Vladimirovich, major general. ATRed Army since 1921. He participated in the Great Patriotic War from the very beginning. For the skillful leadership of combat operations, the organization of the combat work of the Air Force of the 40th Army on the South-Western Front, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
"... Comrade BORMANN by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 27, 1942, for the skillful leadership and organization of the combat work of the Air Force of the 40th Army on the Southwestern Front was awarded the Order of the "RED STAR".
Before the Patriotic War, he was awarded the Order of LENIN. Participates in the Patriotic War from 22.6.1941 in the following positions: Deputy. Commander of the Air Defense Forces, Commander of the Air Force of the 40th Army, Commander of the 220th Air Division, now the 1st Guards Fighter Air Division, Deputy. Commander of the 8th Air Army and from December 1, 1942 Commander of the 216th Aviation Division.
From 18.5. By 4 July 1942, units of the 220th Air Division had shot down 117 and shot down 34 enemy planes in aerial combat. In addition, 5 enemy aircraft were destroyed during the attack on airfields.
From 1.12.42 to 5.4.43 years for the period of command of comrade. BORMAN division and offensive operations to liberate the North Caucasus from the Nazi invaders in parts made 2,610 sorties, with a total flight time of 2,670 hours, of which: 497 sorties for reconnaissance of enemy troops, 736 sorties for escorting attack aircraft, and 736 sorties for covering friendly troops - 477 sorties, to intercept enemy aircraft - 75 sorties, to destroy enemy transport aircraft and clear the air from enemy aircraft - 50 sorties, to attack enemy motorized mechanized troops - 536 sorties, to reconnoiter enemy crossings - 32, zhel. dor. objects - 30, enemy airfields - 10 and for the destruction of enemy floating assets - 13 sorties.
82 air battles were carried out. Shot down in air battles - 9 (?) And 17 enemy aircraft were shot down. In addition, 12 aircraft were destroyed on the ground during attacks on enemy airfields.
By assault actions, parts of the division were destroyed and damaged on the ground: vehicles with troops and cargo - 902, tanks - 45, armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers - 48, gas tankers - 20, artillery pieces - 42, mortars - 25, of which 13 were six-barreled, supply with cargo and ammunition - 240, horses - 228, ammunition depots - 10 were blown up, 2 locomotives were damaged, 2 railways were damaged. wagons, 1 steamboat, 4 barges, 4 boats. Suppressed 38 ZA, 21 anti-aircraft gun points. Destroyed - 2815 enemy soldiers and officers.
Obtained combat experience on the fronts of the Patriotic War comrade. BORMANN skillfully conveys to the commanders and flight personnel of the regiments. - Skillfully and courageously directs the combat work of the air regiments of the division. Disciplined. Demanding commander and organizer ... "
Goering Shopshil Matveyevich, Red Army soldier, signalman. In the Red Army since 1942
"... The Red Army soldier Goering Sh. M., being a telephone operator, during the fighting on the right bank of the Dnieper River to expand and hold the right-bank bridgehead north of Kyiv, showed himself brave, brave, ready for self-sacrifice in the name of victory over the enemy, knowing very well his job, as a communicator.
Under strong artillery mortar fire of the enemy, he repeatedly laid a connection, from firing positions on obl. paragraph. Only in one day of hostilities on 10/12/43, when the enemy went over to the counterattack Comrade. Goering, under enemy fire, caused 18 breaks in communication lines.
Red Army soldier Goering Sh. M. is worthy of the government award of the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree.
Hess Evgeny Pavlovich, senior technician-lieutenant, in the Red Army since June 1941
"... Comrade Hess has extensive experience in the repair and restoration of combat vehicles, acquired during the defense of Stalingrad. He skillfully applied his combat experience in the repair of combat vehicles in difficult winter conditions. ", flexible work of repair teams. Comrade Hess quickly and efficiently restored combat vehicles and they went into battle mercilessly to smash the German invaders. Comrade Hess is proactive, resourceful, has good organizational skills. During the fighting of the regiment, his brigade repaired 8 medium and 10 small tanks."
Goth Nikolai Vyacheslavovich, brig military doctor, in the Red Army from February 1918.
"... GOT Brigadier, Nikolai Vyacheslavovich has been serving in the Red Army since 1918. An active participant in the fronts of the civil war against Yudenich and the White Poles. In E. G. he works as a senior therapist and Chairman of the Hospital Medical Commission. In this work, Comrade Goth showed himself a true enthusiast, a qualified therapist who perfectly understands the challenges facing him.
During his work in E. G. 1171 through the therapeutic departments, led by comrade. Goth passed 4.569 patients; through the Hospital Commission led by him - 1,002 wounded and sick. Counseling all severe therapeutic cases at the Hospital Comrade. Goth, with his qualified conclusions, saved quite a few lives of patients. From day to day, in addition to his great main work Comrade. Goth educates young cadres of military general practitioners, of whom 4 currently hold the positions of Heads of Therapeutic Departments. Comrade Goth introduced a lot of new things into the clinic and the treatment of patients with alimentary malnutrition and scurvy, significantly reducing the mortality of patients ... "
Yuri Sergeevich Manstein, captain, with the Red Army from June 1941
"... In the most critical and difficult areas, Comrade MANSHTEIN personally supervised the evacuation of the materiel from the battlefield and the neutral zone. For example, under his personal leadership, evacuation took place in the Ust-Tosno region, IM IZHORA, STARO-PANOVO, RED BOR and on the left bank of the NEVA river in the area of the last hostilities.
In the period from January 9 to 28, under the leadership of Comrade MANSHTEIN, a joint evacuation group pulled 231 combat vehicles from the battlefield and frontline roads.
(original spelling and punctuation retained)
Source: fishki.net
once with fellow search engines, they visited the “museum of the partisan movement” in a remote village in the Mogilev region. Many curious things were learned about the partisans. In particular, the grandfathers shared about this fact - by the spring of the 42nd, the partisan detachments were conditionally divided into “Polish”, “Jewish” and “ours”. So, quite a considerable number of Germans and Czechs who deserted from the active army served in “ours”, although by the end of the 42nd, the NKVD controlled “our” detachments a little less than completely.
No wonder! The country was international. I don’t know about the Hitlers, but quite a few Bormanns and Mullers lived in the USSR, and the tragedy is that many of them were exiled during the war years to the Kazakh steppes, like a fifth column. Many of them laid down their lives for their homeland, fighting against their compatriots, with whom contact was lost during the time of Peter I, when many Germans left for Russia and found their second homeland here!
"According to the founder of the Jewish Messianic community (the first Jewish-Christian community in Russia) Joseph Rabinovich, the Jewish question can be solved only if they believe in their brother Jesus Christ."
Nikolas. where are the examples of the fact that the Jews are directly raking the heat with the wrong hands? In addition, the banking business is theirs.
BARON Yes, I agree. Adapted, among other things, to seek opportunities to find cannon fodder instead of her sons in the pursuit of her own interests. The Patriotic War and today's Israeli army are exceptions to the rule, since this is a choice only between life or death and everything has to be put at stake. All-IMXO. More about the Jews, without me.
Nikolas. This suggests that this nation is more beaten, and therefore more adapted to everything. back IMHO
Yes exactly!
They are simply forced to be ready for war there, because they live surrounded by enemies
And they really appreciate their soldiers.
The guide told me (when I was there on an excursion) that if a Jew is captured, then he must tell everything, because there is nothing more important than the life of one Jew, they immediately change all their locations.
And in Russia there are hardly any Jews in the army.
BARON, Alina noticed everything correctly. The country of Israel is their country, and even more so surrounded by enemies, which is why they serve there. HERE AND NOW, people of this nationality are generally engaged in more profitable business than any military service. In general, you won’t find their children in the lists of participants in hostilities, and even those who are serving in the army. (But their dads are very fond of talking about patriotism, Fatherland and duty to the Motherland). In the post-war USSR, and especially in the late Brezhnev-Gorbachev era, exactly the same trend was observed. However, this is a completely different story of modern times, and the blog is not about that. We deviate from the topic.
Alina. apparently the wrong Jews live in the State of Israel. Everyone, absolutely, serves in the army. So it was in the USSR, in those days
Perhaps "very mediocre ideas about the Jews in the war."
Although... I have dealt with Nicholas, and I know that he is very delicate in his statements in dealing with girls.
Rzhevsky
Today's Jews do not represent the war.
Is that a few, or in the country of Israel.
Nicholas
I liked how the veteran talks about the war.
About our attitude towards women ... and Georgians, for example, in those military conditions.
Andrei A, I will not argue about the numbers and official statistics of the ratio of the number of GSS to the number of those who lived and fought. I think that the Second World War and fascism carried a direct threat to the very existence of the Jews, hence such figures. Wars that do not directly affect their interests and where you can limit yourself to the lives of workers and peasants, but not your own children, do not have such a ratio. In particular, the last two Chechen wars (especially significant) and the same Afghanistan (your example is the exception rather than the rule). By the way, the attitude of front-line soldiers and home front workers during the Great Patriotic War to this topic was also very ambiguous. There were such expressions as “went to the Tashkent front” and “received a medal for the defense of Tashkent” in relation to persons of this nationality.
P.S. “The percentage of losses among Russians is somewhat higher than the percentage of Russians in the population, by 1.14-1.22 times according to various censuses.
For a significant number of nationalities, the percentage of losses and the percentage of the population are close. Including the Jews, if we take the data on the number of Jews in 1939. Ukrainians, Belarusians, Tatars, Chuvashs, Buryats are also like that.
So the Jews cannot be attributed to those who “sat out in the rear” and had much fewer losses than the average. Such as the Ingush and Chechens, who account for the share of losses in the Soviet army 10 times less than their share in the population. Or the nationalities of Dagestan, where this share is 4 times less. But the Ossetians neighboring them - their share of losses is 0.6 of their share in the population (and, by the way, the largest number of Heroes of the Soviet Union per 1000 dead of all nationalities of the USSR). iguanodonna.livejournal.com website
Alina,
Very mediocre ideas about the Jews in the war. The Jews fought for their existence, because. everyone knew about the extermination of them by the Nazis without exception and they did not surrender due to immediate destruction in the event of nationality being clarified, and of the more or less significant nationalities in Russia, they have the largest ratio of the number of Heroes of the Soviet Union to the number of those who fought, and to the number of those living in country at the time too.
From fresh. I personally know a Jew, born in 1958, who was a long-range aviation navigator twice in Afghanistan and has a wound and a shell shock, so that he could not excuse himself from these business trips (the connections and influence of his relatives were quite enough for this). I won’t say anything about Chechnya, I don’t know, it’s not my age.
I never cease to be amazed.
Jews, and in the war?
Yes ... A very eloquent example that a person should be judged by his deeds, and not by his last name, first name, and so on.
I read the blog and immediately remembered for some reason the series “Students” ... In the educational institution where the main characters received their profession, a mathematician worked with only one name that spoke to many people - Adolf. Everyone around this teacher giggled, whispered: "Hitler." But one day this man told his student why he was called that. It turns out that that was the name of his uncle, a violinist, a person with poor eyesight. That Adik went to the front and died there. And the sister, in memory of him, and not of Hitler, named her son Adolf. Like this...
If this was the case, you can give the hero of the USSR.
Ordinary people were not shot, this applied to those who stood close to greater power.
At the height of the war, my grandfather was given a medal for bravery for seeing a group of infiltrators from a telephone pole in the distance.
Alina, judging by the Red Army book, Hitler was a Jew. As for the rest of the surnames, there were quite a lot of Russified Germans in Imperial Russia and its army. Manstein is one of them. In the Drozdov division of Wrangel in civilian life, such a surname is mentioned among senior officers (father and son Manstein were in it). History sometimes gives out such knees that you wonder. It is known that the very first chairman of the Tsaritsyno city Cheka was a certain Alfred Karlovich Borman, from the Latvian shooters.
As for the rest, you need to dig into the sources, but it is unlikely to find anything about the origin of ordinary Red Army soldiers, and even junior and middle-level commanders. Here is something on the topic of Soviet Germans in the Great Patriotic War
www.pobeda1945.su
In fairness, it is worth noting the reverse examples. Heroes of the Soviet Union in the service of the Luftwaffe
reibert.info
At first I thought it was a joke.
The origin of these Red Army men is interesting.
Find out who their ancestors were?
Yes, Rzhevsky .. You are the original of course in terms of finding non-trivial topics for communication. Well, how can you not put "five" here ?!
Yes, indeed, they were shot, it turns out. not all. *** Mikhalkov in his craft "Burnt by the Sun-2" was forced to admit this.
Alicia, I thought about that too. It is surprising that they did not fall under repression or did not change their surnames.
Rzhevsky
Thank you for reading with great interest!
It turns out that there were our Hitlers, and Goerings, or rather namesakes.
It's amazing how the NKVD didn't shoot them for such names?
Very interesting information. Yes ... with such names it was not easy for the soldiers of the Red Army, but people fought, showed heroism - Eternal memory to them and thanks for the Peaceful Sky! And of course, thanks to all the veterans (and no matter what names) who fought and defended our Motherland from fascism!
Interesting.
I have never looked at the soldiers of the Red Army from such a "family" angle of view.
What is called - amazing nearby. Unusual, non-standard and not consonant with the Russian ear, surnames and names often impose certain fetters on their owners, fetter, dictate a model of behavior unusual for them ...
During the fighting in the Second World War, our Hitlers, Goerings, Bormanns ... probably had to prove their patriotism, refute an unsuccessful family affiliation and show double or triple courage in order to break free from the captivity of stereotypes and get away from ridicule ...
Eternal memory to the heroes of the last war! And Russians, and Jews - and Ivanovs, and our Hitlers ...
And here's another interesting fact.
Karl Marx - SS Standartenführer! :))
www.wolfschanze.ru
Thank you Volodya for an interesting blog.
According to military experts, by 1941 the Wehrmacht was the strongest army in the world. How did Germany, after a heavy defeat in the First World War, manage to create a powerful armed force?
The German historian Werner Picht believed that it was the Treaty of Versailles, according to which Germany did not have the right to have an army of more than 100 thousand people, that forced the Berlin generals to look for new principles for the formation of the armed forces. And they were found. And although Hitler, having come to power in 1933, abandoned the "norms of Versailles", the ideology of military mobility of the new army has already won the minds of German military leaders.
Later, the transfer of German soldiers to Spain to protect the Franco regime made it possible to test 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, Me-109 fighters and dive bombers of the Stuka-87 type in real conditions.
In the same place, the young Nazi aviation created its own school of air combat. The Balkan campaign of 1941 showed how important it is to coordinate a large amount of equipment. As a result, the German staff officers in front of the Russian company had a successful experience in the use of mobile units reinforced by aviation. All this allowed them to create a military organization of a new and, most importantly, systemic type, optimally tuned to carry out combat missions.
In 1935, the concept of special training for Wehrmacht soldiers arose in order to make a kind of “motorized weapon” out of a fighter. For this, the most capable young men were chosen from among the youth. They were trained in training camps. To understand what the German soldiers of the 1941 model were like, you should read Walter Kempovsky's multi-volume Echo Sounder. The books provide numerous testimonies explaining the defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad, including soldiers' correspondence. For example, it tells about a certain corporal Hans, who at a distance of 40-50 meters could hit a small window with a grenade.
“He was an unsurpassed master of urban combat,” writes Hannes, a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, “it was not difficult for him to destroy a machine-gun nest, even if they fired from the other side of the street. If he were alive, we could easily take this damn house, because of which half of our platoon died. But in August 1941, a captured Russian lieutenant killed him with a shot in the back. It was ridiculous, because there were so many who surrendered that we did not even have time to search them. Dying, Hans shouted that it was not fair.
According to official figures, in 1941 the Wehrmacht lost 162,799 soldiers killed, 32,484 missing and 579,795 wounded, most of whom died in hospitals or became disabled. Hitler called these losses monstrous, not so much because of the numbers, but because of the lost quality of the German army.
In Berlin, they were forced to state that the war would be different - a war by all available means. Russian soldiers in the summer and autumn of 1941 offered active resistance. As a rule, these were attacks by desperate and doomed Red Army soldiers, single shots from burning houses, self-explosions. In total, 3138 thousand Soviet soldiers died in the first year of the war, most often in captivity or in "boilers". But it was they who bled the elite of the Wehrmacht, which the Germans had been preparing so carefully for six years.
Any commander will tell you how important it is to have fired soldiers under your command. The German army that attacked the USSR had this invaluable experience of military victories.
In September 1939, the Wehrmacht soldiers, having easily defeated 39 Polish divisions of Edward Rydz-Smigly, felt the taste of victory for the first time. Then there was the Maginot Line, the capture of Yugoslavia and Greece - all this only strengthened the self-consciousness of their invincibility. No country in the world then had so many fired fighters motivated for success.
Retired infantry general Kurt von Tippelskirch believed that this factor was the most important in the first victories over the Red Army. Describing the concept of lightning wars, he emphasized that, in contrast to the anxious hours of waiting for a war with Poland, self-confident German conquerors entered the territory of Soviet Russia. By the way, the multi-day defense of the Brest Fortress is largely due to the fact that the 42nd Rifle Division of the Red Army, which has combat experience in the Finnish War, was stationed on its territory.
The Germans also emphasized the rapid destruction of pockets of resistance, no matter how firmly they were protected. According to the German generals, in this case, the enemy has a feeling of doom and futility of resistance.
As a rule, accurate, almost sniper shelling was used. This was achieved through the successful use of visual optical observation posts, with the help of which shelling was adjusted at a distance of 7-10 km from our positions. Only at the end of 1941, the Red Army found an antidote to the all-seeing Nazi artillery, when it began to build defensive structures on the reverse slopes of the hills, out of reach of German optics.
The most significant advantage of the Wehrmacht over the Red Army was high-quality communications. Guderian believed that a tank without reliable radio communication would not show even a tenth of what it was capable of.
In the Third Reich, since the beginning of 1935, the development of reliable ultrashort-wave transceivers has intensified. Thanks to the appearance in the German communications service of fundamentally new devices designed by Dr. Grube, the Wehrmacht generals were able to quickly control the huge theater of military operations.
For example, high-frequency telephone equipment served the German tank headquarters without any interference at distances up to one and a half thousand kilometers. That is why on June 27, 1941, in the Dubno region, the Kleist group of only 700 tanks was able to defeat the mechanized corps of the Red Army, which included 4,000 combat vehicles. Later, in 1944, analyzing this battle, Soviet generals bitterly admitted that if our tanks had had radio communications then, the Red Army would have turned the tide of the war at its very beginning.
BUT Dolph Hitler and Frielrich Paulus at the map of hostilities. 1940
Berlin, turned into ruins after ten days of continuous fighting, was drowning in the smoke of conflagrations, the roar of guns, the clang of tank tracks, the crackle of machine-gun and automatic bursts. The Nazis fought to the death. There was nowhere to retreat, and they clung to every house, basement, every pile of rubble on the pavement. The Nazi empire, which its creators had recently predicted a thousand-year future, was living out its last hours. A little more - and a red flag will fly up over the mangled dome of the Reichstag. It was April 30, 1945.
SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche and two junior ranks from 15.50 until dark several times went up from the bunker to the courtyard of the imperial office with canisters full of gasoline. Up there, at the back of the yard, lay two charred corpses, which, despite all the efforts of Günsche, could not be completely burned. Accustomed to unquestioning obedience, Günsche and his henchmen exactly carried out the order, or rather, the last will of the one whose remains were devoured by a flame in a puddle of gasoline: “My body and the body of my wife must not fall into the hands of the enemy. No matter how the circumstances develop, they must be completely destroyed."
The Nazi Reich perished in the fire of war, which he kindled himself, and with it turned into ashes and the corpse of his Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler ...
On April 20, 1889, in the Austrian town of Braunau, in the family of a customs official, Alois Hitler, a man from the bottom, who achieved prosperity through hard work and, as he believed, a good position in society, a son was born, who was named Adolf.
Adolf had a difficult character. Reverence for his mother and dislike for his father, daydreaming and excellent stubbornness, sentimentality and a determination to get his way that reached fury - all this was tightly compressed in his soul. The boy was "undoubtedly gifted," as one of his school teachers said of him, but at the same time he showed no diligence. Of the school subjects, he was really interested only in geography, history and drawing. He neglected the study of all other disciplines, for which he once paid the price - he was left for the second year.
Alois Hitler made far-reaching plans for the fate of Adolf. He wanted him to follow in his footsteps and make a career in public service. But what the father dreamed of did not appeal to the son at all. The boy drew well and decided to become an artist. As best he could, he tried to resist the will of his father, but he was adamant.
In 1903, when Adolf was not yet 14 years old, his father died. Having somehow studied for another two years, he dropped out of school (fortunately, there was an excuse - lung disease). An attempt to enter the Vienna Academy of Arts ended in failure. The young man took the loss hard. But soon he had to go through real grief - in 1907 his mother died.
After burying her, Adolf decides to leave for Vienna in order to free himself from painful thoughts and try his luck again. The 18-year-old youth naively believed that the capital, a brilliant center of the arts, would open up the widest prospects for him. However, a new attempt to enter the academy was unsuccessful.
To look for a place in a factory, in an office or in the civil service in order to earn a living - this question, after failing in the exams, was not before Hitler. "Working at the machine or somewhere in the office is not for me," he thought. He was attracted by the free life of a free artist, besides, his financial situation allowed him not to worry about his daily bread. An inheritance, a state allowance, plus some income from the sale of landscapes, which he painted in large quantities, gave him the opportunity to live comfortably and even imitate the Viennese bohemia in some way. Later, when he needs to win over the poor, he will invent a myth about a beggarly, hungry youth, full of hardships ...
Several years of life in the capital flew by unnoticed. Young Hitler matured and changed a lot. He was already over 20, he still dreamed of entering the academy and painted, painted. But his soul began to split in two - an interest in politics appeared, which gradually began to push all other hobbies into the background. Hitler became a regular at meetings held by right-wing parties, and more and more turned into a staunch nationalist, champion of the idea of uniting all Germans, including Austrians, into a single state under the auspices of the German Empire.
Pan-Germanism at that time was becoming more and more widespread among the German-speaking population of different countries. Hitler, like many young Austrians on the eve of the First World War, considered himself the representative of the German nation. He believed that only the Hohenzollerns who ruled Germany could protect the interests of the Germans from encroachments on them by other peoples, but not the Habsburgs. The latter were accused by right-wing circles of currying favor with foreign subjects, who numerically prevailed in the Austro-Hungarian Empire subject to this dynasty.
Along with nationalist ideas, hostility to Marxism (as a doctrine that rejects nationalism) and anti-Semitism - hatred of Jews, whom the right-wing forces declared as bearers of revolutionary ideas and enemies of the national state, firmly entered the mind of the young Hitler.
The ideas that captured him in his youth, Hitler will remain true to his whole life. Taken to the extreme, they will form the basis of the program of the party he will lead, the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). He will try to put them into practice, which will lead to the systematic extermination of entire peoples. But this will happen later, but for now ... In the meantime, May 1913 was going on.
There was a soft knock on the door.
The owner of the room did not answer. He silently stood at the window and thought hard. This was the second summons that came to this address. Over the past year, he has changed several apartments, trying to escape from the field of view of the military department. But each time it was found.
“Of course, serving in the army is the sacred duty of a patriot and citizen,” he reasoned to himself. “But not to serve this rotten Danubian monarchy, this aged Franz Joseph! Behind these reflections, a plan to leave for Germany somehow ripened by itself ... A few days later, Hitler got off the train at the main station in Munich. From that moment on, his fate was already inextricably linked with the German Empire.
However, Hitler's calculation that he would not be found in Munich did not materialize. In February 1914, the fugitive still had to return to Austria for a short time and report to the recruiting station. True, what happened then can only be called the irony of history: Adolf Hitler, the future Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht, was declared ... unfit for military service.
No, young Hitler was not afraid of the hardships of army life and was not a coward. His refusal to join the army had political reasons. Obsessed with the "Great German idea", he was ready to serve, but not to the Austrian emperor, but to the German Kaiser. Only a few months passed, and in August 1914 he volunteered for the German army. In the battles on the Western Front, Corporal Hitler showed courage and courage, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class - an order that the lower ranks were awarded only in the most exceptional cases.
On November 9-10, 1918, a revolution took place in Germany. Wilhelm II was deposed. On November 11, the new government, led by the Social Democrats, decided to end the war. The news of the surrender infuriated Hitler. "Four years of bloody war, millions of lives thrown on the altar of victory, and all in vain! A handful of villains who dug in in the rear seized power and stabbed the German army in the back, betrayed it and the whole country!" - he was indignant.
His indignation increased even more when the new German government accepted the terms of peace dictated to him by England and France: Germany was deprived of colonies, part of its own territory, its army and navy were sharply reduced, and it was entrusted with the obligation to pay huge reparations. Then Hitler made the final decision to become a politician in order to fight against the "November traitors" and the "predatory world." Dismissed from the army, in May 1919 he turned to his former commanders with a proposal to use him in political work. He was instructed to campaign among the German soldiers returning home from captivity. This task was followed by a new one: to monitor the activities of small right-wing parties in Munich. He joined one of them - the German Workers' Party, later renamed the NSDAP - in the fall of 1919. He was issued a membership card number 55 and instructed to recruit new party supporters. Thus began the political career of the future "leader of the German nation."
Hitler, no doubt, possessed the qualities of an outstanding leader, which was revealed already from his first steps in politics. A good organizer, he turned out to be a talented orator who knew how to find contact with the audience, "ignite" it with his emotional, furious speeches. He was a convinced man, fanatically devoted to his ideas (no matter how others felt about them), and this fanaticism, supported by skillful demagoguery, hypnotically influenced people. Hitler had a unique ability to play on the instincts of the masses and skillfully directed their discontent against those who, in his opinion, were the "enemy of the German nation" and were responsible for the troubles that befell it. As such, he declared the Communists, Social Democrats, Jews, Freemasons, the victorious powers - England and France, as well as Bolshevik Russia.
Party comrades very quickly recognized Hitler as their leader. In July 1921, he became the leader of the NSDAP, and his adherents began to create a cult of the "great leader" around him.
On November 8-9, 1923, Hitler and his supporters, supported by some of the military, attempted a coup d'état. They took to the streets of Munich, hoping to overthrow the local government and from there start a campaign against Berlin. In an address to the German people, Hitler hastened to proclaim: "The government of the November criminals is declared deposed from today. A provisional German national government is being formed." In this government, Hitler, presumably, assigned himself the leading role.
However, the putsch was put down. Hitler himself, who was slightly wounded in one of the street skirmishes, tried to escape, but was arrested. The court accused him of high treason and sentenced him to five years in prison, but did not rule out the possibility of reducing the sentence. The lenient sentence was partly due to the fact that the judges themselves held much of the same views as the defendant.
Hitler was placed in the Landsberg prison in Bavaria, where he spent nine months as a privileged prisoner. The result of the conclusion was the first volume of the book "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle"), in which the author outlined his political views. Staying in prison only strengthened his determination to fight for power, using any means for this. In December 1924, when he was released from prison, his party began to oppose the government and the left forces even more actively, reinforcing the verbal statements of its leader with the so-called deed - outright atrocities that its paramilitary organization, the assault squads, did. However, the Nazis did not yet have the strength to seize power.
The year 1929 came. All the capitalist countries, including Germany, were seized by an economic crisis that dragged on for several years. Unemployment, poverty, and the inability of the ruling parties to overcome difficulties - all this made many desperate people turn their eyes to those politicians who called for emergency, harsh measures to improve the situation.
Hitler and his party, not skimping on promises, began to quickly win new supporters. They began to be supported by industrialists, who feared a new upsurge in the revolutionary movement and saw in the NSDAP a force capable of withstanding the "red danger". By 1932 Hitler's party had more seats in the German parliament (Reichstag) than any other party. The Nazis had the opportunity to legally, without arranging new coups, to come to power.
Hitler's hour struck on January 30, 1933. On this day, German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed him Reich Chancellor and instructed him to form a new German government, since the governments created before by other parties were unable to govern the country. The darkest chapter in the history of the German state began - the 12-year period of the Nazi dictatorship.
On the way to power, Hitler promised more than once: "As soon as I stand at the helm of the state, the heads of the enemies of the nation will roll." And heads rolled. First, the Communists, accused of setting fire to the Reichstag, then the Social Democrats and bourgeois democrats ended up in prisons and concentration camps, some in exile. Many of them were brutally tortured. All political parties, except for the NSDAP, all public organizations, except for the Nazis, were banned, the Police and the security service severely persecuted all dissidents. Total surveillance and terror reigned in the country.
Following the "Reds" and "Democrats", it was the turn of yet another "enemies of the nation" - the Jews. Hitler issued a number of laws restricting their rights: Jews were forbidden to be in the public service, to visit public institutions; Jewish children were not allowed in schools; the property of the Jews (factories, banks, shops) was subject to "arization", i.e., transfer to industrialists of German nationality or to the Nazi state. On November 9-10, 1938, Jewish pogroms were organized throughout Germany, which went down in history under the name "Kristallnacht". Later, during the war years, the Nazis began a mass systematic extermination of Jews driven into concentration camps and ghettos.
But the defeat of "internal enemies" and the "racial cleansing" of Germany were only the first part of Hitler's political program. The second part consisted of plans to establish the world domination of the German nation.
The Fuhrer expected to implement this part of the program in stages. He emphasized: first, Germany must regain everything that it lost in the First World War, and unite all Germans into one state - the Greater German Reich. Then it is necessary to defeat Russia - the source of the "Bolshevik danger" for the whole world - and at its expense to provide the German nation with a "new living space", from where it can draw raw materials and food in unlimited quantities. After that, it will be possible to start solving the main task: the war against the "Western democracies" - England, France and the USA - and the establishment of a "new (National Socialist) order" on a world scale.
Subsequently, when the fire of war engulfs almost the entire planet, Hitler will repeatedly try to prove that he did not want war, that it was imposed on him. But who, if not he, turned Germany into one military camp, subjugating everything;
economy, politics, culture, education, everyday life of the Germans have one goal - preparation for the "great battles to come." Who, hatching plans for the redivision of the world, blessed the German soldiers to commit crimes, declaring them "supermen" and representatives of the "master race". Hitler wanted war, and not just war, but the extermination of other peoples declared hostile to the Germans or "inferior" (see Art. "Second World War").
In 1940-1941. Hitler was certainly at the height of his foreign policy and military successes. From the spring of 1938 to the spring of 1939, he practically annexed Austria and the Czech Republic to the Reich without a single shot, from the autumn of 1939 to the summer of 1940 he defeated Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland and France with lightning strikes, and also ousted the British - France's allies - from the continent to their islands. In the spring of 1941, in alliance with fascist Italy, Germany defeated Yugoslavia and Greece. All these states were occupied by the Nazis.
Hitler managed to take part of the European countries under his threats and promises without resorting to military action. The Fuhrer was sure that nothing could prevent him from achieving his goal - to establish world domination of the German nation.
In the summer of 1940, Hitler considered that the time had come to start preparing for a war against the USSR. Although he was afraid of fighting on two fronts - in the west against the British, who continued to resist, and in the east against the Russians - he nevertheless decided to take this step, believing that the Soviet Union was a "colossus with feet of clay" and the Wehrmacht would be able to crush in a few weeks. Exactly one year after the surrender of France, on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany and its allies attacked the USSR.
Hitler was preparing a terrible fate for the peoples of the Soviet country: some were planned to be completely destroyed, others - partially, and the survivors - to be reduced to the position of slaves. But the Fuhrer miscalculated cruelly. It was the USSR that broke the back of its "invincible" army and not only defended its independence, but also liberated other peoples of Eastern Europe from the fascist yoke and made a decisive contribution to the defeat of the Nazi state itself.
Hitler preferred death to capitulation. Even in his death, he decided to fight the enemy. By the death of the unsurrendered "leader of the nation," he wanted to give posterity an example of serving the National Socialist idea.
On April 29, 1945, he wrote in his political testament: "The sacrifices of our soldiers and my loyalty to them even in death will become the seed that will surely germinate sometime in German history, and from it the National Socialist movement will brilliantly revive ..." . The Führer refused the most urgent requests and exhortations from his entourage to leave Berlin and take refuge somewhere safe. "I will not cover myself with the shame of running away," he declared. On April 30, at about 3:30 p.m., he bit through an ampoule of potassium cyanide and at the same time shot himself in the temple with a pistol. Together with him, his wife Eva Braun voluntarily took her own life.
As a person, Hitler was certainly not the kind of caricature that one often sees in films and books about the war. Decisive, strong-willed, fanatically devoted to the idea, he was an integral nature. As an adversary, he inspired respect and fear. Was he a great historical figure? Certainly it was. Insignificant people do not leave such a mark in history. Another thing is that all the qualities of Hitler as a person and politician acquired a minus sign for the world community, because they were turned to evil by the surrounding peoples and those whom he considered the enemies of the German nation.
Hitler was a product of his era both in his way of thinking and in the nature of his actions. If it weren’t for the First World War and the “deepest national humiliation” of Germany by the victorious powers, if there weren’t revolutions in Russia and Germany and a sharp surge in social and national hatred, if there weren’t a great crisis of the late 20s and early 30s, who knows maybe he would have remained a freelance artist or a public figure of a very modest scale. But everything happened differently.
Why and how the artist became the "leader of the nation" can be explained. But there is not and cannot be an excuse for the troubles and suffering that this leader brought to mankind. Crematorium ovens on the territory of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. Poland. 1945
Encyclopedia of delusions. Third Reich Likhacheva Larisa Borisovna
Deserter? How Hitler from the army "mowed"
Like a mother saw me off.
So all my relatives ran:
“Oh, where are you, Vanek, oh, where are you?
You wouldn’t go, Vanek, to the soldiers ... "
folk song
There is a misconception, actively supported at one time by fascist propaganda, that the creator of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, from a young age wanted to be at the forefront of the fight against the enemies of Greater Germany. In fact, there was one page in the biography of the fascist leader that he would like to rewrite ...
This is the first attempt to call the future Fuhrer into the army. As you know, Adolf spent his youth in Austria. However, at the age of 24, he forever left the banks of the Danube and, having moved to Germany, settled in Munich. In itself, a change of residence is not compromising evidence. Another thing is the motives that prompted Hitler to leave his native places. In the program book "Mein Kampf", the future founder of the Third Reich says that the multilingual, multinational, teeming with "lower races" Austria tired him, so in 1912 he decided to move to Germany. This is where the confusion begins. The fact is that Hitler left Vienna a year later, in May 1913, when the Austrian police began to look for him in order to take him to the recruiting station. Europe then stood on the threshold of the First World War, and Adolf did not want to spend his young years in the trenches. Subsequently, biographers of “criminal No. 1” D. Melnikov and L. Chernaya write, the Fuhrer, talking about his life, committed a forgery of facts, fearing that he would be caught in such an unpatriotic act as unwillingness to serve in the army.
But even in Germany, Hitler could expect a “summon from the military registration and enlistment office”, therefore, having arrived in Munich, just in case, he was marked as a person without citizenship. Nevertheless, in January 1914, the Austrian authorities found traces of the young man still liable for military service and, through the Munich police, demanded that he appear at the Austrian embassy and explain why he did not want to fulfill his civic duty. The conscript had to appear before the military medical commission in Salzburg. Doctors examined the future Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht and ... found him unsuitable "for both combat and non-combat service." Thus, on the eve of the First World War, Hitler received a "white ticket", which allowed him not to hide from the officials of the military department.
True, during the war, he still changed his attitude towards military service. Apparently, hoping that the war of Austria-Hungary and Germany against the "subhumans" would be quick and victorious, Hitler considered that it was at the front that he would be able to make a swift career. The future Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht voluntarily appeared at the recruiting station and asked to go to the front. However, he rose only to the rank of corporal and, despite two wounds, served throughout the war as a liaison officer at the regimental headquarters.
There is another version of why Hitler avoided military service. Researcher Oleg Vishlev believes that he fled Austria because he did not want to serve "this rotten Danubian monarchy, this aged Franz Joseph! .." Young Hitler was not afraid of the hardships of army life and was not a coward. His refusal to join the army had political reasons. Obsessed with the "Great German" idea, he was ready to serve, but not the Austrian emperor, but the German Kaiser.
However, this version seems to us not entirely correct, primarily because it does not answer the question why Hitler diligently bypassed the "draft" part of his biography and never talked about how, after receiving several subpoenas from the Austrian military department and frequent change of addresses he secretly left the country. Away from sin...
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