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- particularly tbt Jews and always cuare Je*3» and eayfl that for hia Vienna is the flyabol of incest. But a a far as Jit tier is concerned thiti tiiae was not Aa he looks bocfa over that period he can fl'ty: "So in Ik few years I built a foundation ofknowledge from .which X a t i l l draw todaj." (BK 29) "At that titw I formed an image of the world- and it view of lif# which becrjne the granitu foundation for my ( ) J In Uunlch before the war, thing6 were no better for hip* Ao far as poverty ia concerned he might as well have stayed in no.* UB earned a l i t t l e money pAlnting pofitcarde and posters and Umac painting ELOU£Q3. Early In 1913 ^s Want to Salsburg to for duty in t^fl ancy but wa:i "rajflctfld on tha grounds of poor phyel cal condition* Ha returned to Munich and continued to work at odd Jobs and sit In cafe houses where ha.spent hia time reeding pers. Nothing of which we hnvm any knowledge happened duriig thi3 time which is particularly pertinent to our present study- The proa- pects of ever naking anything out of himself in the future ioudt have been very black At that time* - * • Then caae the World Far. , He writes of tbic \- "The struggle of the year 1914 nas forsooth, not forced on th# juae .as, but deslrad by the Hhole peopl*,11 "To myself ttiose hoturc cue like a redemption from Lthe vex&ti&ue experience & of TBJ youth* Evan, to thle d«v I an cot aahsmed to &ay that, in a transport of enthusiasm, I Sank down Oil my kneed sad thanked Heaven trom MI overflow ing heart--**" REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES