New research revealed Adolf Hitler was treated as a ''teaboy'' messanger and was not the hero he was said to have been during World War One. The furture Nazi dictator had twice been decorated for bravery with experts agreeing Hitler had been at the heart of a close-knit regiment, with many of its veterans forming the core of the National Socialist Party. Yet when historian Dr Thomas Weber re-examined Hitler's role in the 1914-18 war, he discovered as a dispatch runner Hitler was significantly distanced from his regiment's front line troops, was clearly despised by them and was even labelled a 'rear area pig.'But when Hitler came to power in 1933 as Chancellor of Germany the Nazi Party worked to suppress and discredit accounts of the Great War that showed him as anything other than heroic. The story went in the Daily Mail after Cavendish Press was alerted to the research by the University of Aberdeen where Dr Weber works as a historian.

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