Hitler won the iron cross for saving someone's dog

[Mike_Yates]

Hitler was awarded the iron cross medal for risking his life to save someone's dog during world war 1.

The iron cross medal was the highest award you can receive in the Germany army during those times. Hitler was awarded several of them for his valorous acts in WWI, one of them being for running out into the line of enemy fire and rescuing someone's dog from harm.

That dog was then safely returned to it's owner.

 

[CandiCame]

Hitler wasn't such a bad guy.

Did you know he killed Hitler?

 

[ChinaBandit]

Hitler received the Iron Cross, First Class in 1918. It was not the highest military award possible in the German Imperial Army. The Grand Cross of the Iron Cross is much higher. Between 1813 and 1945 only 18 of these were awarded. Ian Kershaw, Hitler's most current biographer, says Hitler earned it running dispatches.

In a stroke of irony, a Jewish officer (Lt Hugo Gutmann) actually nominated Hitler for the award.

The world is a wacky place.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Hitler received the Iron Cross, First Class in 1918. It was not the highest military award possible in the German Imperial Army. The Grand Cross of the Iron Cross is much higher. Between 1813 and 1945 only 18 of these were awarded. Ian Kershaw, Hitler's most current biographer, says Hitler earned it running dispatches.

In a stroke of irony, a Jewish officer (Lt Hugo Gutmann) actually nominated Hitler for the award.

The world is a wacky place.

Hitler loved his dog.

 

[blobfish]

Hitler received the Iron Cross, First Class in 1918. It was not the highest military award possible in the German Imperial Army. The Grand Cross of the Iron Cross is much higher. Between 1813 and 1945 only 18 of these were awarded. Ian Kershaw, Hitler's most current biographer, says Hitler earned it running dispatches.

In a stroke of irony, a Jewish officer (Lt Hugo Gutmann) actually nominated Hitler for the award.

The world is a wacky place.

Hitler wasn't known for his antisemitism until after the war.

 

[dirtycarol]

Hitler loved his dog.

Yes, he loved the dog so much he killed it just before he killed himself. I'm not sticking up for the him, just stating a fact.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Hitler wasn't known for his antisemitism until after the war.

Most biographers, including Kershaw, see his antisemitism as manifesting during Hitler's Vienna period before WWI. More telling, Hitler speaks about it in Mein Kampf too. He did not politicize it until he had the platform do so after 1918.

 

[Sean]

Most biographers, including Kershaw, see his antisemitism as manifesting during Hitler's Vienna period before WWI. More telling, Hitler speaks about it in Mein Kampf too.

Huge fucking chunks of Mein Kampf are about the Jews.

 

[JohnnySavage]

What was the dog's name?

I have a German Shepard puppy named Gus.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Huge fucking chunks of Mein Kampf are about the Jews.

Well, it was first published in 1925 when Hitler was well and truly using the Jewish issue, among others, for political benefit.

 

[ChinaBandit]

What was the dog's name?

I have a German Shepard puppy named Gus.

Blondie

 

[blobfish]

Most biographers, including Kershaw, see his antisemitism as manifesting during Hitler's Vienna period before WWI. More telling, Hitler speaks about it in Mein Kampf too. He did not politicize it until he had the platform do so after 1918.

He didn't start writing Mein Kampf until several years after the war. At any rate, he was certainly not outspoken about his beliefs until after the war. No one could ever know what he thought.

 

[ChinaBandit]

I just watched ""Downfall" again the other night. Bruno Ganz's performance is amazing!

 

[ChinaBandit]

He didn't start writing Mein Kampf until several years after the war. At any rate, he was certainly not outspoken about his beliefs until after the war. No one could ever know what he thought.

No one?

His best friend Kubizek, from as far back as Linz, writes extensively about what Hitler thought.

You can read his work as well as note all the Kubizek commentary from biographers including Kershaw and Stofli.

I, myself, would not dismiss Hitler's own commentary in Mein Kampf.

For example,

"My opinions on anti-Semitism also slowly changed with the passing of time, and this was the most difficult change I ever went through. It was the most difficult of all my spiritual struggles. Only after battling for months between understanding and feelings did the voice of reason finally win."

Page 82 of the Ford Translation. It continues at even greater length. He definitely hated Jews while in Vienna...

 

[Sean]

No one?

His best friend Kubizek, from as far back as Linz, writes extensively about what Hitler thought.

You can read his work as well as note all the Kubizek commentary from biographers including Kershaw and Stofli.

I, myself, would not dismiss Hitler's own commentary in Mein Kampf.

For example,

"My opinions on anti-Semitism also slowly changed with the passing of time, and this was the most difficult change I ever went through. It was the most difficult of all my spiritual struggles. Only after battling for months between understanding and feelings did the voice of reason finally win."

Page 82 of the Ford Translation. It continues at even greater length. He definitely hated Jews while in Vienna...

You're a moron.

 

[The_Trouvere]

I love animals, and especially dogs...What extraordinary animals they are - lively, loyal, bold, courageous and handsome!

The blind man's dog is one of the most touching things in existence...

During the winter of 1921 - 22, I was offered a sheep-dog. He was so sad at the thought of his old master that he could't get accustomed to me. I therefore decided to part with him. His new master had gone a few steps, when he gave him the slip and took refuge with me, putting his paws on my shoulders. So I kept him.

- Adolf Hitler, from Hitler's Table Talk

 

[ChinaBandit]

You're a moron.

You are not well read. Try picking up something more than a comic book once awhile.

 

[Sean]

You are not well read. Try picking up something more than a comic book once awhile.

Jesus H Christ. Are you a Garbage Can alt?

 

[Disgustipated]

Jesus H Christ. Are you a Garbage Can alt?

Damn, that's cold.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Jesus H Christ. Are you a Garbage Can alt?

Read my friend.

There are good public libraries in America while you build your own collection of books.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Most biographers, including Kershaw, see his antisemitism as manifesting during Hitler's Vienna period before WWI. More telling, Hitler speaks about it in Mein Kampf too. He did not politicize it until he had the platform do so after 1918.

I saw the only distinguishing mark in their strange religion. The fact that they had been persecuted on that account turned my aversion against unfavorable remarks about them almost into abhorrence...

I still saw nothing abut the religion in the Jew, and for reasons of human tolerance I continued to decline fighting on religious grounds. In my opinion, therefore, the language of the anti-Semitic Viennese press was unworthy of the cultural traditions of a great race. I was depressed by the memory of certain events in the Middle Ages which I did not wish to see repeated. Since the newspapers in question had not a high reputation generally I saw in them more the products of envious annoyance rather than the results of a fundamental but but incorrect opinion.

- Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf, Volume I, Chapter 2 "Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna"

 

[ChinaBandit]

"Even I could no longer doubt that this was a question about a people in itself and not about Germans of a particular religious persuasion. Since I had begun to occupy myself with the question and to pay attention to the Jew, Vienna had appeared to me in a new light. Wherever I went now, I saw Jews and the more I saw, the more clearly my eye distinguished them from other people."

Page 83 of the Ford Translation

BTW: The first volume of Mein Kampf is translated in "An Accounting" The 3rd Chapter is entitled "General Political Considerations of My Vienna Period."

It becomes increasingly critical of Jews and anti-semetic.

 

[blobfish]

You think that Mein Kampf is an accurate autobiography?

 

[ChinaBandit]

You think that Mein Kampf is an accurate autobiography?

I don't think I would ever use the term autobiography for Mein Kampf.

The purpose behind it was clearly propaganda for Nazi party members.

Having said this, I don't have reason to doubt that Hitler started to manifest his anti-semetic vision, or world concept, in Vienna which is a theory shared by his biographers. The economic problems created by Versailles, war payments and the "whole stabbed in the back in November 1918" fit nicely with the Jews as a program for extreme Nazi nationalism as the 20's raced a long.

I think he was years away, as well as yet to face the prods of Heydrich and Himmler, from the horrors of the final solution.

In theory, one can argue there were No Nazi programs against the Jews until the Nuremburg Laws of 1935.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Hitler wasn't known for his antisemitism until after the war.

He preached it in Mein Kampf, but it was so dreadful nobody took it serious. Then the death camps were discovered while the war was still in progress.

Here are some quotes from Mein Kampf.

http://www.mosaisk.com/auschwitz/Adolf-Hitler-about-the-Jews.php