text: during wwi, what was life like in the trenches for the typical german soldier?   look up the site trenches on the web..best site..no hitler was not in the artillery, he was a messanger and he was gassed. look up world war one german reenacting. these guys do a lot of detailed research on the germans in ww1. i will be going to zonnebeke in belgium this month to do some reenacting.below is a pic of me taken in france.