This is Adolf Hitler during World War I. What do you think of his time, given the circumstances? Also, note that Hitler did not have his more square-shaped toothbrush moustache until some time after 1918. The current picture shows he was getting close to a small moustache, though it was only a trim with the curled ends of his once longer moustache, which he had during much of the war.
>>17416057He was lucky to have survived. A lot of people aren't. I wonder how many Hitlers died without ever accomplishing anything in those hellish trenches?
>>17416057They lost LMAO
>>17416057He's pretty cool looking desu
>>17416057Hitler was a vile bastard but the environment created the man. Ww1 was absolute hell kino and it turned the artsy woke hippie Hitler to the jew hating genocidal maniac - we can blame him for his actions but his ideology existed simply because German society was rotten to the core, that I cannot blame him for
>>17417073ThisPeople nowadays can't conceive of the sheer genuine apocalyptic horror that the Great War was, and even WW2 didn't even compare to it in terms of horror and destruction. If such a war occured today there'd be thousands of radical extremists and a Hitler figure would not seem so out of place. To see an entire generation of your country's best and brightest be wiped out in a couple of years and then have your government turn on you all and throw you to the wolves and sell your country to foreigners would fucking enrage anyone. Maybe not all of his solutions were good but the intensity of his feeling was very widely shared.
>>17416057>>17417073>>17416057>>17417073The wars influence on hitler shouldn't be exaggerated. Whatever experiences it gave him it didn't stop him from joining the bavarian soviet after the war and then not join the freikorps coming to crush it. the officer that recommended Hitler for the second iron cross in 1917 was a jew so any virulent antisemitism had probably not manifested itself at that point unless Hitler was really good at hiding it.Also it is worth remembering Hitlers duties in the regiment were not as dangerous as he later claimed to gain political clout. Of eight men in the regiment who held that position not a single one died during their time there.
>>17416057That picture was actually taken right after the was.
Does the punishment fit the crime?
>>17417183I am moreso of the opinion that if hitler didnt exist (or had died during the war), someone would have simply replaced him. I don't mean to say the war is the reason he was who he was, but the culture of germany 100% was. The joking antisemitism of the prussian elite spread to the masses, and they were shocked when the populace was actually into antisemitism. I really blame the german elite who advocated for militarism as a game and ruined their nation for nearly a generation.>>17417382KEK
>>17417462I don't think Antisemitism ever became widespread in German society, not the violent fanatical antisemitism of Hitler and Goebbels. The kristallnacht became a large disappointment for many hardliners because the public remained mostly neutral or negative to the destruction. A lot of people have tried really hard to show a unique german attraction to antisemitism and the best they have found is a popular sense of indifference to the fate of jews.
