Don’t know...He volunteered to be a runner and that job wasn’t very healthy.
Exactly - so there should have been plenty of attrition in his unit leading to his necessary advancement. It is odd that he did not advance.
I remember reading a book several years ago and, if I remember correctly, one of the guys in his unit moved to the United States after WWI and this guy eventually supplied info to U.S. intelligence to help them try and build a profile of Hitler. This man related that Hitler would have had no problem fitting into obama's new military.