“I
WAS VERY MUCH DRAWN TO HITLER”, Ernst Schmidt [during a 1932
newspaper interview about their time together in WW1].
Ernst
Schmidt, Hitler’s army boyfriend was the son of a miller, born in
Wurzbach, southern Germany, on December 16, 1889. After leaving
school, he became a painter and decorator. He qualified in 1907 and
according to his own account, spent his journeyman’s time working
“in various parts of Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy”.
(Ibid.) On August 6, 1914, he joined the 1st Company of the
16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment where he met Adolf Hitler.
[The two men may have already known each other from their time
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FOXY
FELLAS: Ernst Schmidt, Max Amann, Adolf Hitler and their dog, Foxl at
Fournes (Amann became Nazi Party publisher, amassed a fortune,
but died penniless in 1955 when the Allies confiscated his wealth)
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In
the first few weeks of the war, Schmidt became a dispatch runner with
Hitler and from then on, the two men became inseparable. Read review of book here
Lothar
Machtan, author of The
Hidden Hitler (2001)
said: “Employed as regimental runners, they jointly delivered one
message with such efficiency, or so we are told, that from November
1914 on, they were permanently assigned to regimental headquarters as
so-called combat orderlies. As such, they had more freedom within the
military hierarchy than other enlisted men.They were invariably to be
seen as a couple.” Hitler described his WW1 regiment as a “glorious
male community”.
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NIGHT
TIME VISITOR: Ernst Schmidt benefited from his wartime relationship
with Hitler; pictured together in 1933
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