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-izz- On Autftiet 5, 1914, Hitler joined a Ba>arlcn retflmeut a volu;it«ir. During the first daya of the' imr his regiment Suf- very heavy losses and was not partiCUIATIJ popular among the people. Hitler becflffe an orderly in Regimental ters as m i l as n runner. The one thing thfit all his comrnd&a cented on w&s hia subservience to. superior officere. I t seems that L • P he went out of his way to .court, their good gracest offering to do ' • >•• , - . • , their washing and other menial taska Docuch to the dicgust of Ki'fi L He ma6 h&t popular with the othtr men and always reu&lnod •H • r aloof frojD than. "bThfin tie did jiin ttiem he usually barpjigtied about politienl •attars- During the femx years of war he received no packages or mall froci auyona* ID this he wau unique. At Christmas time*when everyone else WRB receiving gifta end mefiflagefi he i?ith- drew from the group and suited moodily by hiaaelf. When bis cam- rad«c encouraged him to join the group and phare their packagns T. r v ' i -hfl refueed* On October 7t 1916, he w£S wounded by fl piece of nel and sent to a hospital* It was A li^ht wound! nnd he wnfl eoon discharged and Bant ta Uunlch as a replaceinent# After two days there he wrote hie comnandi^g officert Captain Vledenann^ that he bg roinattte'd in his regiMnt because hfr could not Munich when he knew hifl comrades irere at ths Front* * ffiedemann had him returned to the regiment where he renal nod until October 14th when he was exposed to mustard gas and sent to a hospital in P-nsa- He was bllhd and* according to Frledslinde Waguer, loot It-seen s thflt n^yetery bltraya follows Hitler. His career in the arany is uo exception. Ihare are eerarnl things that ) • never been satisfactorily explained* the first is that he -jpent s REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES