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"In "Hitler's First War," award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history--a major revision of our understanding of Hitler's life. Weber paints a group portrait of the List Regiment, Hitler's unit during World War I, to rewrite the story of his military service while offering a profound challenge to the idea that World War I served as the perfect crucible for Hitler's subsequent rise."
"In "Hitler's First War," award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history--a major revision of our understanding of Hitler's life. Weber paints a group portrait of the List Regiment, Hitler's unit during World War I, to rewrite the story of his military service while offering a profound challenge to the idea that World War I served as the perfect crucible for Hitler's subsequent rise."@en
"Perhaps no individual in modern history has received more intensive study than Adolf Hitler. His many biographers have provided countless conflicting interpretations of his dark life, but virtually all agree on one thing: Hitler's formative experience was his service in World War I. Unfortunately, historians have found little to illuminate this critical period. Until now. In Hitler's First War, award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history--a major revision of our understanding of Hitler's life. Weber paints a group portrait of the List Regiment, Hitler's unit during World War I, to rewrite the story of his military service. Drawing on deep and imaginative research, Weber refutes the story crafted by Hitler himself, and so challenges the historical argument that the war led naturally to Nazism. Contrary to myth, the regiment consisted largely of conscripts, not enthusiastic volunteers. Hitler served with scores of Jews, including noted artist Albert Weisberger, who proved more heroic, and popular, than the future Fuhrer. Indeed, Weber finds that the men shunned Private Hitler as a "rear area pig," and that Hitler himself was still unsure of his political views when the war ended in 1918. Through the stories of such comrades as a soldier-turned-concentration camp commandant, veterans who fell victim to the Holocaust, an officer who became Hitler's personal adjutant in the 1930s but then cooperated with British intelligence, and the veterans who simply went back to their Bavarian farms and never joined the Nazi ranks, Weber demonstrates how and why Hitler aggressively policed the myth of his wartime experience. Underlying all Hitler studies is a seemingly unanswerable question: Was he simply a product of his times, or an anomaly beyond all calculation? Weber's groundbreaking work sheds light on this puzzle and offers a profound challenge to the idea that World War I served as the perfect crucible for Hitler's subsequent rise. - Publisher."
"Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler's time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a blank spot. Until now, all that we knew about Hitler's life in these years and the regiment in which he served came from his own account in Mein Kampf and the equally mythical accounts of his comrades. -- Publisher description."@en
"Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler's time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a blank spot. Until now, all that we knew about Hitler's life in these years and the regiment in which he served came from his own account in Mein Kampf and the equally mythical accounts of his comrades.Hitler's First War for the first time looks at what really happened to Private Hitler and the men of the Bavarian List Regiment of which he was a."

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"Hitlers erster Krieg der Gefreite Hitler im Weltkrieg - Mythos und Wahrheit"
"Hiltlers erster Krieg der Gefreite Hitler im Weltkrieg - Mythos und Wahrheit"
"Hiltlers erster Krieg : der Gefreite Hitler im Weltkrieg : Mythos und Wahrheit"
"Hitler's first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the list regiment, and the First W\orld War"
"Hitler's First War Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War"
"Hitlerʼs first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War"
"Hitlers erster Krieg : der Gefreite Hitler im Weltkrieg - Mythos und Wahrheit"
"Hitler's first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War"
"Hitler's first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the list regiment, and the First World War"@en
"Hitler's first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the list regiment, and the First World War"
"Hitlers erster Krieg der Gefreite Hitler im Weltkrieg : Mythos und Wahrheit"
"Hitler's first war Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War"@en
"La première guerre d'Hitler"
"Hitlers erster Krieg der Gefreite Hitler im Weltkrieg, Mythos und Wahrheit"

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