This proposition is wrong, Hitler has long since lost the so-called "corporal rank", under normal circumstances, only the German field marshal or the United States five-star general such a top rank recipient, only for life to retain the rank and never retire, otherwise the rank will disappear with the retirement of the soldier. The Prussian Officer Corps privately referred to the Nazi Fuehrer as "Corporal Bohemian", more of a form of ridicule and contempt.
Hitler's retirement from active service in the German army was precisely because he accidentally joined the early Nazi Party, then known as the German Workers' Party, a small Munich-based political group in September 1919. Realistically speaking, Hitler was a good soldier, he fought bravely, he was not afraid of dirty and even bad women, which was the evaluation of his comrades in world war I.
Hitler arrived at the front in October 1914 after three months of recruit training and served in the Bavarian Liszt Infantry Regiment, during which he was wounded twice and was awarded the Iron Cross twice. The first of these was a leg injury in 1916, and after recovering from treatment in the rear hospital, he was promoted to corporal when he returned to the battlefield, especially the Iron Cross of the First Class, which was extremely difficult for soldiers and non-commissioned officers to obtain, so Hitler was always proud and wore it to death.
(Hitler during World War I)
After the end of the First World War, Corporal Hitler was continued to be employed by the German Army in the Information Bureau of the Political Department of the Headquarters of the Munich Military District, and could be retained after the Wehrmacht was reduced to 100,000 people, indicating that Hitler's ability was still recognized. If he had enrolled in military school, he might have become a formal officer and had a better career in the army, but he went down a different path.
Because of his fierce anti-Semitic advocacy, he was appreciated by the officer corps and was selected to serve as a political instructor in an infantry regiment, during which he greatly exercised his oratory and eloquence. One day in September 1919, he was ordered by the Political Department of the Military District to attend a rally of the "German Workers' Party" in Munich in order to understand the political tendencies of the group. Counting hitler, there were only 26 people at the rally, and he did not take it seriously, but soon after returning to the barracks, he received a postcard inviting him to join the party.
Hitler accepted the invitation after much deliberation, and the small group was the predecessor of the Nazi Party, and after a period of performance, Hitler was finally elected as the head of the party. In order for the party to grow and develop, Hitler began to devote all his body and mind, and the work of the army was substantially abandoned. By one day in the summer of 1921, Hitler personally led the SA to attack a rally of another party, was sentenced to three months in prison for serious injuries (the actual one month in prison), and he completely lost his military rank and never joined the army again.
The dubbed "Bohemian" corporal was actually the invention of German President Hindenburg, the veteran general who looked down on Hitler in the early days, but finally had to ask him to form a cabinet to witness the explosive development of the Nazi Party during this period. And because the "Beer Hall Coup" was suppressed by the Army, Hitler severely hated and despised the Wehrmacht, an idea that ran through the rest of his life and meant that he could not become a member of the Army.
After Hindenburg's death in 1934, Hitler combined the president and the chancellor, created his own position as "Führer", was already the commander-in-chief of the armed forces in the legal sense, and there was no need for him to get a military status and a military rank (so the Führer should have been 11 years). In a sense, Hitler regarded the Wehrmacht as a political enemy in the early days, constantly rectifying and eventually controlling it, and when the Wehrmacht collectively declared allegiance, he even took pleasure in commanding the Prussian officer corps with the qualifications of a Corporal of the First World War.
Kaiser Wilhelm II awarded a total of five generals the rank of Field Marshal throughout World War I, not even Ludendorff. On July 19, 1940, after the victory in the Battle of France, Hitler issued 12 field marshals' staffs and a king-size "Reich Marshal" cane at the scene of the Reichstag, and he used the technique of indiscriminately awarding marshals and devaluing the value of ranks, on the one hand, to strengthen the control of the Wehrmacht, and on the other hand, to achieve his goal of contempt for the Army.
Giving Goering's position above that of other field marshals was deliberately done by Hitler, as he was his legal successor. This approach also helped to prevent potential resistance among the generals, which proved to be effective, and throughout World War II there were many incidents of the officer corps collectively opposing Hitler, and even assassination and coup attempts, which were eventually thwarted.
After nazi Germany annexed Austria, hitler was flattered by the fact that "the emperor's cause was accomplished by the Prime Minister (bismarck) and maintained by soldiers", for which he was deeply proud. On many important formal occasions, Hitler liked to wear the uniform and big cap of the SA, surrounded by many generals in uniform, and he greatly enjoyed the thrill of a former veteran commanding hundreds of generals, and as for personal ranks, he did not care.
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