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15monotony of years which went by with no hope of any change.“I had gone to Vienna,” he said several years later whenhe stood accused of high treason against the German nation“and I began to study the social and racial problems and theMarxian movement. I left Vienna a convinced anti-Semite,a mortal enemy of the Marxian „Weltanschauung,‟ and a pan-German.”About two years before the outbreak of the world warHitler left Vienna for Munich. Only one man could say– Hitler himself – why he had left the Austrian capital. Yethe has never given a satisfactory answer. His statement thatas% young man in his early twenties he knew that Austria‟sfate would be decided in Germany is no explanation. He wasof military age when he left Austria. Either he had left thecountry before he was passed on by the recruiting commission,in which case the Austrian law regarded him as a deserter,or he had been rejected for military service as unfit. Thiswould have been just as devastating for a young man forwhom racial superiority and fitness for military service wereidentical.“Austria was not then a German country,” Hitler‟sfriends would say. “That is why he left Vienna, the air ofwhich was contaminated with the breath of Slavs, Magyarsand Latins.”Even this explanation ignores the question of what hadhappened to Hitler‟s military service in Austria P Why didhe have to wait two years before joining the Bavarian armyduring the war, when he would have been drafted anyway.In Munich Hitler continued to make as little stir in the