German Gefreiter Adolf H*tler posing for a photograph with two comrades, April 1915. Today 109 years ago, on August 16, 1914, a certain 25-year-old Austrian painter by the name of Adolf H*tler enlisted into the German 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. When the First World War broke out in August 1914, Hitler was living in Munich, Germany, where he enlisted in the German Army on August 5, 1914. Due to his Austro-Hungarian citizenship, H*tler had to request permission in order to serve in the German Army. This wish was granted on August 16, 1914, and he was assigned to the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. While on the frontlines of Flanders, the Regiment was reportedly reduced from 3,600 to 611 men from October 1914 - December 1914. On December 2, 1914, in an attack which would cost the Regiment 122 lives, H*tler reportedly saved his new Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Engelhardt by dragging him to safety after he had foolishly stepped out of cover at the edge of a forest. For ...