Adolf Hitler — "War Poet"?

Hitler with His Fellow Soldiers

It Was in the Thicket of the Forest at Artois... 

based on a true event.

Attributed to Adolf Hitler

It was in the thick of the Artois Wood.

Deep in the trees, on blood-soaked ground,

Lay stretched a wounded German warrior,

And his cries rang out in the night.

In vain ... no echo answered his plea ..

Will he bleed to death like a beast,

That shot in the gut dies alone?

Then suddenly . . .

Heavy steps approach from the right

He hears how they stamp on the forest floor .

And new hope springs from his soul.

And now from the left . . .

And now from both sides . . .

Two men approach his miserable bed

A German it is, and a Frenchman.

And each watches the other with distrustful glance,

And threateningly they aim their weapons.

The German warrior asks:

"What do you do here?" "

I was touched by the needy one's call for help."

"It's your enemy!"

"It is a man who suffers."

And both, wordless, lower their weapons.

Then entwined their hands

And, with muscles tensed, carefully lifted

The wounded warrior, as if on a stretcher,

And carried him through the woods,

'Til they came to the German outposts.

"Now it's over.

 He will get good care."

And the Frenchman turns back toward the woods.

But the German grasps for his hand,

Looks, moved, into sorrow-dimmed eyes

And says to him with earnest foreboding:

"I know not what fate holds for us,

Which inscrutably rules in the stars.

Perhaps I shall fall, a victim of your bullet.

Maybe mine will fell you on the sand

For indifferent is the chance of battles.

Yet, however it may be and whatever may come:

We lived these sacred hours,

Where man found himself in a man . . .

And now, farewell! And God be with you!"

This is presented here as a matter of historical interest rather than for the quality of the verse. (Although this is a translation, and I don't know how well it reads in the German original.)

Sources: I've found two sources which attribute this poem to Hitler: Hitler to Power  by Charles Bracelen Flood, and the original (in German) Hitler’s World View by  Eberhard Jäckel.