2 August 1914
At the outbreak of WW1, Hitler participates in a rally at Munich's Odeonsplatz. Heinrich Hoffmann covered the event and discovered several years later that Hitler was on the photo (although there are doubts that it may have been edited for propaganda)

5 August 1914
Adolf Hitler enlists as a volunteer with the 6th reserve battalion of the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment 16 List

8 October 1914
At the end of his basic military training, Adolf Hitler swears allegeance before Bavarian king Ludwig III. Pictured is the List regiment parading in front of the king in Munich's Türkenkaserne

1 November 1914
349 soldiers of the List Regiment died in their first battle near Ypres on the Flanders front. Following the battle, Adolf Hitler is promoted to the rank of Gefreiter (corporal)

2 December 1914
Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross second class for having saved, with his comrade Anton Bachmann, the commandant of the regiment Lieutenant Colonel Philipp Engelhardt

May 1915
Adolf Hitler (in Drillich, second from right) as a corporal during the First World War pose with his comrades in Fromelles, France

1916
Adolf Hitler (4th from right) and his comrades in the fields near Fromelles, France

April 1916
Adolf Hitler in Fournes-en-Weppes, France, during WWI

July 1916
Adolf Hitler (bottom left) with his WWI comrades in Fournes-en-Weppes, France

August 1916
Adolf Hitler with his WWI comrades in Fournes-en-Weppes, France

September 1916
Adolf Hitler (bottom left) with his WWI comrades in Fournes-en-Weppes, France

26 October 1916
Adolf Hitler (second from right, top row) and his wounded comrades in Beelitz lazareth near Berlin

April 1917
Adolf Hitler (far left) and his comrades in Hantay, France

4 August 1918
Adolf Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross first class

January 1919
Adolf Hitler in Traunstein just after the end of WW1

25 February 1934
Adolf Hitler and Hindenburg commemorate the victims of WWI at the cenotaph of Unter den Linden, Berlin for Memorial Day