HITLER’S IRON CROSS
BLUFFING THE FRENCH. A Berlin newspaper recently revealed how Herr Hitler won his Iron Cross. It was during the autumn campaign near La Basse and Arras in 1915. Hitler and another soldier named Weiss were on patrol duty, and were endeavouring to find out where the nearest French troops were. The two men crept into an apparently deserted village. Suddenly French voices were heard coming from the cellar of a wrecked house. Hitler opened the door, called out in broken French that a German company was behind him and summoned the French soldiers to surrender. Then, says the newspaper, giving commands to the non-existent company he completely bluffed the French, and a lieutenant and 20 soldiers . emerged with their hands up and surrendered to Hitler and his companion, who escorted them to their Bavarian regiment.
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Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 2
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