The military career of Adolf Hitler can be divided into two distinct portions of Adolf Hitler’s life. Mainly the period during World War I when Hitler served as a Gefreiter (lance corporal) in the Bavarian Army and the era of World War II when Hitler served as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) through his position as Führer of Nazi Germany.
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Wound Badge, Iron Cross
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First Battle of Ypres, Battle of Arras (1917), Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of the Somme, World War I