Hitler himself was also wounded in the Battle of Somme in October 1916. He was injured in his left thigh after a shell exploded at the entrance to the dispatch runners’ dugout. He begged not to be evacuated, and after he was, he wrote his commanding officer, Hauptmann Fritz Wiedemann, asking to be recalled. Wiedemann arranged for him to return to his regiment in 1917. Hitler was wounded again in October 1918 after a British mustard gas attack. He was temporarily blinded, and according to at least one source, he also lost his voice. He was hospitalized, and while there, he learned of Germany’s
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