Podcasts about Gefreiter

München 1918. Der Erste Weltkrieg ist vorbei und die Herrschaft der Wittelsbacher nun Geschichte. Eine neue Zeit bricht an, die jedoch wieder mit Gewalt eingeläutet wird: Auf eine Phase des Krieges folgt nun eine Phase des Krieges. Dieser Krieg wird jedoch nicht auf den Schlachtfeldern Europas gefochten, sondern in den Straßen Münchens, in ehemaligen Schulen und auf öffentlichen Plätzen. Es beginnt mit einem Attentat und endet in einer fürchterlichen Gewaltorgie. München droht im Chaos zu versinken, weil sich "roter Terror” und "weißer Terror” abwechseln und gegenseitig hochschaukeln. Nutznießer ist ausgerechnet ein junger österreichischer Gefreiter, der in München seine neue Heimat findet.

Gefreiter, Matrose oder Gefreiter. Wer auch nur einen Tag in der Bundeswehr gedient hat und noch nicht das Alter von 65 Jahren erreicht hat, kann unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen als Reservist infrage kommen.

Mit seiner Wanderschau "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" ließ Colonel William F. Cody, besser bekannt als "Buffalo Bill", den legendären Wilden Westen zum Leben erwecken und brachte seine Geschichten eindrucksvoll in und Abenteuer hautnah in alle Welt. Der Schausteller verstand es mitreißend, Mythos und Realität miteinander zu verweben - und konnte durchaus auf eine lebhafte und bewegte Westerner-Laufbahn zurückblicken. Doch wie wurde William Cody zu dem Mann, der den Mythos des "Wilden Westens" geprägt hat wie kein anderer? 0:00:00 - Einleitung: Das zweite Jahr von "Western Unchained", neues Intro und weitere Neuheiten 0:01:36 - Colonel William Frederick Cody alias "Buffalo Bill" 0:04:29 - Nachrichten aus dem Wilden Westen: Rezensionen zum Bühnenstück "Scouts of the Prairie", 1873 0:08:32 - William Cody's Jugendjahre in "Bloody Kansas" 0:14:04 - Erste Tätigkeiten: Mit 11 Jahren unter Armee-Scouts 0:15:45 - Kleiner Exkurs: "Mormonen-Aufstand", oder der "Utah-Krieg" von 1857/58 0:17:44 - Freundschaft mit Wild Bill Hickock, und ein erster "Indianer-Kampf" 0:20:50 - Beim Pony-Express (1860/61) 0:25:25 - Kutscher und Gefreiter im Bürgerkrieg, und weitere Erlebnisse mit "Wild Bill" Hickock 0:29:25 - Nach dem Bürgerkrieg: Gründung von Rome, Kansas 0:30:50 - Ziviler Scout bei der Armee und Auszeichnungen in den "Indianer-Kriegen" 0:34:08 - Büffeljäger für die Eisenbahn (1867/68) 0:38:38 - Der wahre "Buffalo Bill": Jagdwettstreit um den Büffel-Spitznamen 0:42:07 - "Die große Jagd": Besuch des russischen Erzherzogs Alexei Alexandrowitsch Romanow (Januar 1872) 0:47:08 - Ned Buntline's Lebende Legende: Der Groschenroman-Held "Buffalo Bill" (ab 1869) und das Bühnenstück "Scouts der Prärie" (Dezember 1872) 0:51:21 - Die große Zirkus-Schau: "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" (1882) 0:56:24 - Kurz zusammengefasst: Weitere Taten und Ehrungen 0:58:10 - Was hat Buffalo Bill inspiriert? (So ziemlich alles...!) 1:06:20 - Verabschiedung und Ausblick aufs nächste Mal Gefällt euch der Podcast? Dann unterstützt uns doch via Ko-Fi!  https://ko-fi.com/westernunchained

In der ARD-Mediathek könnt ihr in der Reportage „Rabiat: Das brutale Geschäft der Holzmafia“ sehen, wie im Holzhandel mit unsauberen Methoden gearbeitet wird, in „Der Hauptmann“ auf Prime Video schlüpft ein Gefreiter in die Uniform und in die Rolle eines Hauptmanns und in „Unbekannt: Die Knochenhöhle“ auf Netflix geht es um archäologische Funde, die die Geschichte der Menschheit neu schreiben könnten. Hier entlang geht's zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/was-laeuft-heute >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/kultur/was-laeuft-heute-rabiat-das-brutale-geschaeft-der-holzmafia-der-hauptmann-unbekannt-die-knochenhoehle

In der ARD-Mediathek könnt ihr in der Reportage „Rabiat: Das brutale Geschäft der Holzmafia“ sehen, wie im Holzhandel mit unsauberen Methoden gearbeitet wird, in „Der Hauptmann“ auf Prime Video schlüpft ein Gefreiter in die Uniform und in die Rolle eines Hauptmanns und in „Unbekannt: Die Knochenhöhle“ auf Netflix geht es um archäologische Funde, die die Geschichte der Menschheit neu schreiben könnten. Hier entlang geht's zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/was-laeuft-heute >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/kultur/was-laeuft-heute-rabiat-das-brutale-geschaeft-der-holzmafia-der-hauptmann-unbekannt-die-knochenhoehle

In der ARD-Mediathek könnt ihr in der Reportage „Rabiat: Das brutale Geschäft der Holzmafia“ sehen, wie im Holzhandel mit unsauberen Methoden gearbeitet wird, in „Der Hauptmann“ auf Prime Video schlüpft ein Gefreiter in die Uniform und in die Rolle eines Hauptmanns und in „Unbekannt: Die Knochenhöhle“ auf Netflix geht es um archäologische Funde, die die Geschichte der Menschheit neu schreiben könnten. Hier entlang geht's zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/was-laeuft-heute >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/kultur/was-laeuft-heute-rabiat-das-brutale-geschaeft-der-holzmafia-der-hauptmann-unbekannt-die-knochenhoehle

Wir möchten euch herzlich zur vierzehnten Episode der achtzehnten Staffel des Hörgeschichten-Podcasts Clue Cast begrüßen. Sie basiert auf der Story „Operation ‚Adieu‘“ von Rahel. Eine komplexe Operation will gut geplant sein. In dieser Geschichte wurden die vorgegebenen Clues „Innendekorateur, Hundebändiger, Fassung, Gefreiter“ und „Pobacke“ vertextet und sie spielt am Setting „Schwesternzimmer“. Der Sprecher dieser Episode … „S18E14 | Operation „Adieu““ weiterlesen The post S18E14 | Operation „Adieu“ first appeared on Clue Writing.

Eckel & Niavarani & Sarsam - Gefreiter! Wattestäbchen laden!!Alles außer Corona Podcast - Staffel 2 - Teil 5Aufzeichnung einer Skype Session vom Montag, 16. November nachts.Bei unserem nächtlichen Austausch handelt es nicht um ein Festival von schnellen Pointen, sondern um einen freundschaftlichen Austausch zwischen Kollegen, denen ihre Arbeit fehlt. Wer will, kann uns sehr gerne dabei belauschen."Eigentlich sollten die Drei ja um diese Zeit auf der Bühne stehen. Weil das aktuell nicht möglich ist, finden sie ihr Publikum, indem sie einander via Skype am Abend beim Reden zusehen. Ein Gespräch über die Themen, die uns aktuell alle bewegen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Als we Adolf Hitler moeten geloven, is de Eerste Wereldoorlog (of zoals ze toen zeiden, de Wereldoorlog of de Grote Oorlog) dé vormende gebeurtenis geweest in zijn leven. Hoewel hij Oostenrijker van geboorte was, meldde Hitler zich in augustus 1914 vrijwillig bij het Duitse leger. Hij geloofde in de groot-Duitse gedachte en voelde zich Duitser en geen Oostenrijker. Hij was als soldaat actief aan het Westfront in Frankrijk en België en werd later benoemd tot koerier. Hij werd bevorderd tot de rang van Gefreiter (korporaal) en is twee keer onderscheiden.De meningen van ooggetuigen zijn verdeeld, maar volgens Hitler zelf was zijn tijd als soldaat er een van glorie, roem en kameraadschap. Over de – op zijn zachtst gezegd – mindere kanten van de loopgravenoorlog hoor je hem niet. In deze aflevering van Adolf, de podcast bespreken we Hitlers ervaringen als frontsoldaat en de beeldvorming hierover. Volgende week in deel 2 bespreken we wat voor invloed de oorlog heeft gehad op Hitlers latere leven en zijn politieke denkbeelden.

30- INTERVIEW MIT MILITÄRBISCHOF DR. SIGURD RINK  1V3Dr. Rink (*1960) ist seit 2014 der Bischof für die Seelsorge bei Soldatinnen und Soldaten. Sein Amtssitz ist Berlin. Er besucht regelmäßig Soldaten an allen über 100 Standorten weltweit.Seelsorge bei der Bundeswehr gibt es seit Beginn an. Militärgeistliche (m/w) sind einerseits als Pfarrer ordiniert und haben somit Schweigepflicht zu allem, was sie von Soldaten (m/w) in der Seelsorge erfahren. Andererseits sind sie Bundesbeamte im Blick auf die Geheimhaltungspflicht im militärischen Sinne.Der Geistliche bei der Bundeswehr hat Zugang zu allen Hierarchieebenen und entsprechende Vortragserlaubnis. Er hat bewusst keinen eigenen militärischen Rang. Dahinter steht die Idee: Es ist immer ein Gespräch auf Augenhöhe – er „hat“ also immer im Rang seines jeweiligen Gesprächspartners. Dem Gefreiten ein Gefreiter, dem General ein General…Viele Tätigkeiten sind ähnlich wie im Gemeindepfarramt, Taufen, Trauen, Bestattungen und Schule (Lebenskundlicher Unterricht). Der eindeutige Schwerpunkt ist jedoch die Seelsorge.Ein Themenbereich ist das Alltägliche. Aber, besonders bei Auslandseinsätzen, angesichts von Verletzung und Tod stellen sich Soldaten die Frage nach der Sinnhaftigkeit ihres Tuns.  Was trägt in diesen Situationen mein Leben.  „Not lehrt Beten“ ist dabei eine menschliche Erfahrung. Hier ist es gut, dass es die Seelsorge für die Soldatinnen und Soldaten gibt. P-K-30 Interview Dr. Sigurd Rink, Protestant Military BishopSince 2014 Dr. Sigurd Rink is the military bishop and responsible for the pastoral care of all soldiers in the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). He is visiting the troops in more than 100 garrisons all over the world.Pastoral care is been established in the German Armed Forces since their formation. Military chaplains (m/f) on one side are ordained as pastors and on the other hand they are federal civil servants committed to the government, especially in terms of loyalty and obligation to confidentiality.The chaplain of the German Armed Forces has direct access to all hierarchical levels and has also the right to recitation. Consciously he is not holding a military rank, which is generally interpreted as being at eye level with all his conversational partners.Many of his activities are similar to the civil parish office like baptizing, wedding, funerals or religious education at schools. But the focus is on pastoral care on-site in garrisons and during deployments abroad. There, when soldiers are directly confronted with injury and death they ask themselves the question of meaning regarding their duty and what really matters in life. “Distress teaches praying” qualifies as for everybody regardless of an ecclesial socialization. Here it is a gain offering pastoral care for soldiers. (C) Stefanhund.com #Podcast-Pfarrer  Dr. Sigurd Immanuel RinkDer Militärbischof – Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD)Jebensstraße 310623 BerlinInternet:http://www.militaerseelsorge.bundeswehr.deEmail: heike.stenzel@hesb.de

Durch einen Brief aus der Heimat erfährt der württembergische Auswanderer Karl Herzog mit zwei Jahren Verspätung vom Tod seines Bruders. Die Vereinigten Staaten treiben unaufhaltsam in politisches Chaos und Gewalt. Karl, der bei der U.S. Armee als einfacher Gefreiter dient, zieht mit seiner Kompanie von Alcatraz aus ein halbes Jahr lang gegen “feindliche Indianer”. Als die Schlächterei des Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges schließlich beginnt, werden Karl und seine Kameraden in denSüdwesten geschickt, um Truppen der Südstaaten zurückzuschlagen. Wochenlang marschieren sie in unerträglicher Wüstenhitze. Und am Ende dieses Wahnsinns wartet ein Schlachtfeld. (Produktion 1998)

Here’s something interesting. If you search Google Books for “Hitler,” you’ll get 3,090,000 results. What’s that mean? Well, it means that more scholarly attention has probably been paid to Hitler than any other figure in modern history. Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and a few others might give him a run for his money, but I’d bet on Hitler. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. Surely Thomas Weber knew this when he began to work on Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (Oxford UP, 2010). After all, a new book on Hitler’s wartime experience had come out in 2005. What more is there to say? It turns out that there is quite a lot if you know where to look. And Weber does. He uses an interesting approach to uncover novel information about Hitler. Weber acknowledges that the documentary record relating directly to Hitler’s personal wartime experience is thin (a few letters, some military reports) and, when it is thicker, biased (more than a few axe-grinding memoirs from a much later time). These documents, all of which have been pored over by historians, will not shed any new light on Hitler. So Weber turns to a much larger and more trustworthy body of sources: that produced by the officers and soldiers in Hitler’s unit, the List Regiment. Though these papers usually do not mention Hitler by name, they enable Weber to reconstruct what he must have experienced, to see what was typical and what was not in Hitler’s service record, and, on the basis of this information, judge the veracity of claims made by Hitler, Nazi propagandists, and historians about the impact of World War I on the the Nazi dictator. The result is a serious revision. Hitler (et al.) said that World War one “made” him the person he became. Weber shows in detail that this claim is false. Fundamental elements of Hitler’s worldview either pre-date the war (his German nationalism) or seem to post-date it (his radical anti-semitism). In fact, the war did two things for Hitler: it gave him credibility he could use as he entered politics and it convinced him that he was an expert in military affairs. He ran for office as a humble Gefreiter (private), a holder of the Iron Cross First Class; and he ran the war as a dilettantish know-it-all, often with disastrous consequences. The only revelation Hitler had in the trenches was a common one, namely, that war is a very nasty business. That he went on to start another, even bloodier one has less to do with his experience of World War One than the ideas he brought to the conflict and absorbed after it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's something interesting. If you search Google Books for “Hitler,” you'll get 3,090,000 results. What's that mean? Well, it means that more scholarly attention has probably been paid to Hitler than any other figure in modern history. Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and a few others might give him a run for his money, but I'd bet on Hitler. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it's hard to say anything new about him. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it's hard to say anything new about him. Surely Thomas Weber knew this when he began to work on Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (Oxford UP, 2010). After all, a new book on Hitler's wartime experience had come out in 2005. What more is there to say? It turns out that there is quite a lot if you know where to look. And Weber does. He uses an interesting approach to uncover novel information about Hitler. Weber acknowledges that the documentary record relating directly to Hitler's personal wartime experience is thin (a few letters, some military reports) and, when it is thicker, biased (more than a few axe-grinding memoirs from a much later time). These documents, all of which have been pored over by historians, will not shed any new light on Hitler. So Weber turns to a much larger and more trustworthy body of sources: that produced by the officers and soldiers in Hitler's unit, the List Regiment. Though these papers usually do not mention Hitler by name, they enable Weber to reconstruct what he must have experienced, to see what was typical and what was not in Hitler's service record, and, on the basis of this information, judge the veracity of claims made by Hitler, Nazi propagandists, and historians about the impact of World War I on the the Nazi dictator. The result is a serious revision. Hitler (et al.) said that World War one “made” him the person he became. Weber shows in detail that this claim is false. Fundamental elements of Hitler's worldview either pre-date the war (his German nationalism) or seem to post-date it (his radical anti-semitism). In fact, the war did two things for Hitler: it gave him credibility he could use as he entered politics and it convinced him that he was an expert in military affairs. He ran for office as a humble Gefreiter (private), a holder of the Iron Cross First Class; and he ran the war as a dilettantish know-it-all, often with disastrous consequences. The only revelation Hitler had in the trenches was a common one, namely, that war is a very nasty business. That he went on to start another, even bloodier one has less to do with his experience of World War One than the ideas he brought to the conflict and absorbed after it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven't already.

Here’s something interesting. If you search Google Books for “Hitler,” you’ll get 3,090,000 results. What’s that mean? Well, it means that more scholarly attention has probably been paid to Hitler than any other figure in modern history. Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and a few others might give him a run for his money, but I’d bet on Hitler. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. Surely Thomas Weber knew this when he began to work on Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (Oxford UP, 2010). After all, a new book on Hitler’s wartime experience had come out in 2005. What more is there to say? It turns out that there is quite a lot if you know where to look. And Weber does. He uses an interesting approach to uncover novel information about Hitler. Weber acknowledges that the documentary record relating directly to Hitler’s personal wartime experience is thin (a few letters, some military reports) and, when it is thicker, biased (more than a few axe-grinding memoirs from a much later time). These documents, all of which have been pored over by historians, will not shed any new light on Hitler. So Weber turns to a much larger and more trustworthy body of sources: that produced by the officers and soldiers in Hitler’s unit, the List Regiment. Though these papers usually do not mention Hitler by name, they enable Weber to reconstruct what he must have experienced, to see what was typical and what was not in Hitler’s service record, and, on the basis of this information, judge the veracity of claims made by Hitler, Nazi propagandists, and historians about the impact of World War I on the the Nazi dictator. The result is a serious revision. Hitler (et al.) said that World War one “made” him the person he became. Weber shows in detail that this claim is false. Fundamental elements of Hitler’s worldview either pre-date the war (his German nationalism) or seem to post-date it (his radical anti-semitism). In fact, the war did two things for Hitler: it gave him credibility he could use as he entered politics and it convinced him that he was an expert in military affairs. He ran for office as a humble Gefreiter (private), a holder of the Iron Cross First Class; and he ran the war as a dilettantish know-it-all, often with disastrous consequences. The only revelation Hitler had in the trenches was a common one, namely, that war is a very nasty business. That he went on to start another, even bloodier one has less to do with his experience of World War One than the ideas he brought to the conflict and absorbed after it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s something interesting. If you search Google Books for “Hitler,” you’ll get 3,090,000 results. What’s that mean? Well, it means that more scholarly attention has probably been paid to Hitler than any other figure in modern history. Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and a few others might give him a run for his money, but I’d bet on Hitler. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. Surely Thomas Weber knew this when he began to work on Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (Oxford UP, 2010). After all, a new book on Hitler’s wartime experience had come out in 2005. What more is there to say? It turns out that there is quite a lot if you know where to look. And Weber does. He uses an interesting approach to uncover novel information about Hitler. Weber acknowledges that the documentary record relating directly to Hitler’s personal wartime experience is thin (a few letters, some military reports) and, when it is thicker, biased (more than a few axe-grinding memoirs from a much later time). These documents, all of which have been pored over by historians, will not shed any new light on Hitler. So Weber turns to a much larger and more trustworthy body of sources: that produced by the officers and soldiers in Hitler’s unit, the List Regiment. Though these papers usually do not mention Hitler by name, they enable Weber to reconstruct what he must have experienced, to see what was typical and what was not in Hitler’s service record, and, on the basis of this information, judge the veracity of claims made by Hitler, Nazi propagandists, and historians about the impact of World War I on the the Nazi dictator. The result is a serious revision. Hitler (et al.) said that World War one “made” him the person he became. Weber shows in detail that this claim is false. Fundamental elements of Hitler’s worldview either pre-date the war (his German nationalism) or seem to post-date it (his radical anti-semitism). In fact, the war did two things for Hitler: it gave him credibility he could use as he entered politics and it convinced him that he was an expert in military affairs. He ran for office as a humble Gefreiter (private), a holder of the Iron Cross First Class; and he ran the war as a dilettantish know-it-all, often with disastrous consequences. The only revelation Hitler had in the trenches was a common one, namely, that war is a very nasty business. That he went on to start another, even bloodier one has less to do with his experience of World War One than the ideas he brought to the conflict and absorbed after it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s something interesting. If you search Google Books for “Hitler,” you’ll get 3,090,000 results. What’s that mean? Well, it means that more scholarly attention has probably been paid to Hitler than any other figure in modern history. Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and a few others might give him a run for his money, but I’d bet on Hitler. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. Surely Thomas Weber knew this when he began to work on Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (Oxford UP, 2010). After all, a new book on Hitler’s wartime experience had come out in 2005. What more is there to say? It turns out that there is quite a lot if you know where to look. And Weber does. He uses an interesting approach to uncover novel information about Hitler. Weber acknowledges that the documentary record relating directly to Hitler’s personal wartime experience is thin (a few letters, some military reports) and, when it is thicker, biased (more than a few axe-grinding memoirs from a much later time). These documents, all of which have been pored over by historians, will not shed any new light on Hitler. So Weber turns to a much larger and more trustworthy body of sources: that produced by the officers and soldiers in Hitler’s unit, the List Regiment. Though these papers usually do not mention Hitler by name, they enable Weber to reconstruct what he must have experienced, to see what was typical and what was not in Hitler’s service record, and, on the basis of this information, judge the veracity of claims made by Hitler, Nazi propagandists, and historians about the impact of World War I on the the Nazi dictator. The result is a serious revision. Hitler (et al.) said that World War one “made” him the person he became. Weber shows in detail that this claim is false. Fundamental elements of Hitler’s worldview either pre-date the war (his German nationalism) or seem to post-date it (his radical anti-semitism). In fact, the war did two things for Hitler: it gave him credibility he could use as he entered politics and it convinced him that he was an expert in military affairs. He ran for office as a humble Gefreiter (private), a holder of the Iron Cross First Class; and he ran the war as a dilettantish know-it-all, often with disastrous consequences. The only revelation Hitler had in the trenches was a common one, namely, that war is a very nasty business. That he went on to start another, even bloodier one has less to do with his experience of World War One than the ideas he brought to the conflict and absorbed after it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s something interesting. If you search Google Books for “Hitler,” you’ll get 3,090,000 results. What’s that mean? Well, it means that more scholarly attention has probably been paid to Hitler than any other figure in modern history. Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and a few others might give him a run for his money, but I’d bet on Hitler. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. Surely Thomas Weber knew this when he began to work on Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (Oxford UP, 2010). After all, a new book on Hitler’s wartime experience had come out in 2005. What more is there to say? It turns out that there is quite a lot if you know where to look. And Weber does. He uses an interesting approach to uncover novel information about Hitler. Weber acknowledges that the documentary record relating directly to Hitler’s personal wartime experience is thin (a few letters, some military reports) and, when it is thicker, biased (more than a few axe-grinding memoirs from a much later time). These documents, all of which have been pored over by historians, will not shed any new light on Hitler. So Weber turns to a much larger and more trustworthy body of sources: that produced by the officers and soldiers in Hitler’s unit, the List Regiment. Though these papers usually do not mention Hitler by name, they enable Weber to reconstruct what he must have experienced, to see what was typical and what was not in Hitler’s service record, and, on the basis of this information, judge the veracity of claims made by Hitler, Nazi propagandists, and historians about the impact of World War I on the the Nazi dictator. The result is a serious revision. Hitler (et al.) said that World War one “made” him the person he became. Weber shows in detail that this claim is false. Fundamental elements of Hitler’s worldview either pre-date the war (his German nationalism) or seem to post-date it (his radical anti-semitism). In fact, the war did two things for Hitler: it gave him credibility he could use as he entered politics and it convinced him that he was an expert in military affairs. He ran for office as a humble Gefreiter (private), a holder of the Iron Cross First Class; and he ran the war as a dilettantish know-it-all, often with disastrous consequences. The only revelation Hitler had in the trenches was a common one, namely, that war is a very nasty business. That he went on to start another, even bloodier one has less to do with his experience of World War One than the ideas he brought to the conflict and absorbed after it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s something interesting. If you search Google Books for “Hitler,” you’ll get 3,090,000 results. What’s that mean? Well, it means that more scholarly attention has probably been paid to Hitler than any other figure in modern history. Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and a few others might give him a run for his money, but I’d bet on Hitler. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. The fact that so much effort has been expended on Hitler presents modern German historians with a problem: it’s hard to say anything new about him. Surely Thomas Weber knew this when he began to work on Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (Oxford UP, 2010). After all, a new book on Hitler’s wartime experience had come out in 2005. What more is there to say? It turns out that there is quite a lot if you know where to look. And Weber does. He uses an interesting approach to uncover novel information about Hitler. Weber acknowledges that the documentary record relating directly to Hitler’s personal wartime experience is thin (a few letters, some military reports) and, when it is thicker, biased (more than a few axe-grinding memoirs from a much later time). These documents, all of which have been pored over by historians, will not shed any new light on Hitler. So Weber turns to a much larger and more trustworthy body of sources: that produced by the officers and soldiers in Hitler’s unit, the List Regiment. Though these papers usually do not mention Hitler by name, they enable Weber to reconstruct what he must have experienced, to see what was typical and what was not in Hitler’s service record, and, on the basis of this information, judge the veracity of claims made by Hitler, Nazi propagandists, and historians about the impact of World War I on the the Nazi dictator. The result is a serious revision. Hitler (et al.) said that World War one “made” him the person he became. Weber shows in detail that this claim is false. Fundamental elements of Hitler’s worldview either pre-date the war (his German nationalism) or seem to post-date it (his radical anti-semitism). In fact, the war did two things for Hitler: it gave him credibility he could use as he entered politics and it convinced him that he was an expert in military affairs. He ran for office as a humble Gefreiter (private), a holder of the Iron Cross First Class; and he ran the war as a dilettantish know-it-all, often with disastrous consequences. The only revelation Hitler had in the trenches was a common one, namely, that war is a very nasty business. That he went on to start another, even bloodier one has less to do with his experience of World War One than the ideas he brought to the conflict and absorbed after it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices