From August 1913 onwards, Hitler was being sought by the Linz police for ‘avoiding call-up’, and in January 1914 he was located, thanks to the cooperation of the Munich police and brought before the Austrian Consulate-General in Munich. His excuse that he had registered as a potential conscript in 1910 in Vienna and had had no intention of avoiding military service was accepted, as it was impossible to disprove it in Munich. He was permitted to undergo his medical in Salzburg on 5 February 1914, where he was declared ‘unfit for military service’.140 Six months later, the First World War broke
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