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FROMELLES (FRANCE)

January - September - Fromelles

Somewhere in the beginning of 1916 - Sante

Resting time as reserve troops in Sante. When Hitler has a day off, he often goes to Lille.

January – February - FromellesHitlers regiment carries out feint attacks as distraction from the offensive in Verdun.

January 15 - Haubourdin and back to Fromelles

The 1st batallion goes to Haubourdin for a parade for King Lüdwig III . After that they go back to Fromelles

The command of the the first line is located at the Teehaus on the Gartenstraße. (The Gartenstrasse could be

the street between Aubers and Fromelles.)

The Sanitätsunterstand of RIR 16 was located opposite to the Regimentsbefehlstelle.

July 1 -November 18 - Hitlers regiment takes part of the Battle of the Somme (France) and sees heavy action at

Fromelles (northern France) and Baupame (Somme region, France).

Starting July 19 British and Australian divisions fought with the German soldiers near the village of Fromelles, as

a distraction from the Battle of the Somme. The Battle of the Somme took place in the area of Baupame and

Albert (France).

July, first week - Hitler is on a leave. He visites Brussels. A postcard to an a fellow soldier of July 6, 1916 says

that this is the most beautiful journey he has ever done, exept for the rain that keeps falling.

July 19 - La Bassée, Wavrin, Fromelles

The 1st batallion serves as Brigade-Resderve at La Bassée. The batallions staf is at Wavrin. Arrival at front

Fromelles at 1 o’clock (at night). The batallion travelled by train.

July 19/20 - Fromelles

Battle of Fromelles. Attack of the Australian army.

July - September 24/25 - Fromelles

In the night of September 24/25 the regiment left the trenches of Fromelles for the last time.

Left: Hitler (first row, left) with his

fellow-soldiers somewhere in

Belgium or France in front of a

Regimentsstab building (1916)

Right: Hitler (top row centre) in 1916

in a lazaret in Beelitz (Germany)

(pictures: Russel, 2006)

In 1916 Hitler and his regiment were stationed in Vlaanderen and French-Vlaanderen. The regiment was in Fromelles

most of the time. Because the pictures and information about Fromelles is already on the 1915 page, a part of it is

repeated on this page. Some maps of the area are only on the 1915 page. In 1916 Hitler got woonded in Le Bargue

and was brought to the Red Cross Military Hospital in Beelitz.

BELGIUM and FRANCE

1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1918

HISTORICAL HITLER SITES

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On both sides of the road between Fromelles and Aubers are a lot of bunkers. One of them is the so called

Hitlerbunker, the bunker where Hitler was said to have been stationed. There is no prove of that. And there are no

pictures of Hitler visiting the bunker in when he was in the area in 1940. The bunker he did vis it is on the Rue de la

Biette (see below). Considering the fact that Hitler and his regiment were in the area for nine months, he must have

known this bunker.

The bunker is a German bunker, but why it’s called the Hitlerbunker is not sure.

(pictures: the Hitlerpages, 2007)

Rote Banke

Location: Rue Delval/ Rue de Leval, (see maps for exact location)

Today: Unsure. It was already ruïned in WW1.

The Rote Banke is another location that’s on the maps of Hitlers regiment. Hitler must have known this location.

The Rote Banke

(picture: Meijer, 1934)

Befehlstelle Bayern

Location: Southeast of the Deleval Ferme, exact location unknown

Since Hitler had to bring messages from and to the commanding officers the locations where the commanders were

A drawings Hitler made near

Fromelles. The aquarel ‘Haus mit

weissem Zaun’ is made northwest of

Fromelles, near the ‘Roten Banke’, in

1915. A lot of drawings of Adolf

Hitler were redone or coloured by a

better artist after 1933.

(Russel, 2006)

Rote Banke and the House mit weissem Zaun

Location: Rue Delval (on the corner of the road to Pétillon) Look at the map for the exact locations.

Today: Unknown, but there are still houses there.

Hitler knew the area the Germans called the Rote Banke very well. He drew a picture of the ‘Haus mit weissem Zaun’

that was also on the Rue Delval.

The ‘real’ Hitlerbunker

Location: At the end of Rue de la Biette (outside the village) is a soccerfield, behind it in the fields is the bunker

Today: Still there

Of this German bunker can be proven that Hitler was there in 1940, because there are pictures made of the event.

What the bunker ment fot Hitler in WW1 is not clear.

Hitler visited this bunker in 1940 (pictures: Heinrich Hoffmann)

The bunker today

(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2007)

Adolf Hitler and his fellow couriers

somewhere in the fields in 1916

(picture: Weber, 2010)

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The drawing ‘Unterstand’ (Shelter)

was made by Hitler in 1915.

(Russel, 2006)

House on the road between

Fromelles and Aubers (picture: Meijer,

Unterstand Fromelles

(picture: Solleder, 1932)

SOME OTHER PICTURES AND DRAWINGS OF THE FROMELLES AREA:

‘Road’ between Fromelles and the

front line (picture: Meijer, 1934)

House on the road between Fromelles

and Aubers (picture: Solleder, 1932)

House on the road between Fromelles

and Aubers (picture: Meijer, 1934)

The church of Fromelles

(picture: Solleder, 1932)

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The station of Fromelles


Fromelles(picture: Meijer, 1934)

The church of Aubers


located are important. The location of this Befehlstelle is s till unkown, but there’s a picture of it. Untill now I found no

Befehlstelle Bayern(picture: Meijer, 1934)

House on an aquarel made by Adolf Hitler

Location: Unknown

Hitler drew a picture entitled Houbardin in 1916.

HAUBOURDIN (FRANCE)

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An aquarel of Adolf Hitler entitled

Haubourdin (Russel, 2006)

September 24/25 - Fromelles

RIR 16 leaves the trenches of Fromelles for the last time.

The 1st batallion goes to Loos (east of Haubourdin), the 2nd and 3rd batallion go to Haubourdin.

September 26/27 - Travelling towards the Somme in the region of Cambrai

The regiment (all batallions and regiment staf) leaves from Haubourdin station (the railroad track is north of

the Rue Gabriek Péri today) and goes to:

Hermies (1st batallion); Iwuy (2nd batallion + regiment staf).

By foot they go to: Bancourt (1st batallion); Frémicourt (the rest of the troops).

September 28 – October 1- Riencourt-Villers au Flos

The regiment has to work on the German positions Riencourt-Villers au Flos.

October 2 - Frémicourt, Bapaume, Le Bargue

The regiment joins the battle at the Somme. It has to go to Frémicourt, and be ready to leave.

The complete regiment was to go to the lines between Bapaume and Le Bargue, but only the first batallion goes

there, behind the front line. The regiment staf is located at Bapaume.

Location of the 1st and 2nd batallion: south of Le Barque – Ligny – Thilloy.

The 1st batallion goes to the village of Le Bargue.

October 2/3 - Le Bargue

The 1st batallion goes to the front.

The second Befehlstelle of the batallion commander is in Le Bargue, near the Regimentsbefehlstelle (exact

location not mentioned). The companies on the frontline from left to right (?): 5, 4, 3, 8, 2, 1.

October 6 + 7 - English attack

October 7 - Le Bargue/Le Bargur

Hitler gets wounded in the thigh during the Battle of the Somme. He is brought to the Sammellazarett in Hermies.

October 9 – December 1 - Germany

Hitler recovers in a Red Cross Military Hospital in Beelitz (Germany). He also visits Berlin in this period.

Locations of the List regiment when Hitler was in Germany:

Le Bargue, Spatnyriegel, Bapaume, Sancourt, Tilloy (Tilloy-les-Cambrai).

October 1916 – February 1917 Vimy Höhe

October 16 Vimy Höhe (Hitler not present)

Train from Sancourt to Billy-Montigny, from there by foot to the shelters.

Location of the trenches of RIR 16: west of Vimy, with the front line on the flat s ide of the Vimy Höhe, the

wooded side. The defense line was about where the highway runs today.

October 17 – 19 Vimy Höhe (Hitler not present)

Batallions go to the front. The first batallion stands reserve at Merincourt or Douai.

December 3 - München

Hitler returns to a reserve batallion in München (Germany). He stays in Germany untill March 1917 .

RIENCOURT-VILLERS (FRANCE)Unterstand

Location: Unknown

There’s a picture of Hitler inside an Unterstand of Ordonanzen in Riencourt-Villers. Hitlers regiment was there to work

Théatre de l’Opéra

Location: Boulevard Carnot

Today: The Opéra was renewed in 1923 and 2004. It is called the Opéra de Lille.

In the period between January and July 1916 Hitler often went to Lille when he was on a leave. In one of the vi llagesnear Fournes-en-Weppes was a tramline to Lille. Most of the soldiers that went to Lille on a day off went to the bars in

Lille, but Hitler mostly didn’t. Sometimes he went to the theatre of the Deutsche Theater Lille that did performances

at the Théatre de l’Opera. At other times he jus t wandered through the city. (source: Weber, 2010)

The Opéra of Lille in 1916

(picture: wikipedia)

LILLE (FRANCE)

The Opéra of Lille in today (picture: wikipedia)

A view from the side shows that it’s

the same operahouse as the one on

the picture made in 1916.

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A map of the Somme region with Le Bargue on it. Here

Hitler got wounded. More research is needed to get

information about exact locations related to Hitler in this

region. (Solleder, 1932)

LE BARGUE (FRANCE)

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