The then Crown Prince, My Great-Grandfather Adolf Hitler the Hohenzollern, was nearly fatally wounded with a Machine Gun during trench warfare on the Western Front, after being conscripted to the German Army in his twenties after World War 1 started.

He was horrifically wounded. He was found, almost dead, by troops who spoke a language he didn't understand, who stole his boots and left him for dead, without shooting him dead. He then had to get back to a trench along the ground, over a period of hours, seriously wounded in the torso, hip, leg, and lungs. He had on the spot emergency surgery when attended by a medical team on site. His heart needed to be massaged by hand inside his chest during further surgery to keep him alive, due to loss of blood. He survived despite his wounds, including both of his lungs being punctured.

The Crown ...