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{ _ rasarkablo change for one who for almost seven years refused to eiert hlbuLf just n l i t t l e in order to pull himself out of thft pitiful conditions in which ha lived among th« dregs of POST-ffAH r • • r Then cane tha armistice sna fill this was over. Hitler, from fl psychological paint of view, n&s in exactly the same position AS the.one in nhich he found himself eleven years- • i - L • before when bip Bother died- He faced the future Aloue. The bid home for four years, wun breakix.g up*. Ag*ift he stood aloije be- fore a disjifel future - a world in irhich he could not find & niche, a worli^ which did not ca^e For him, q world of aimless existence • • i " fraught with harduhips. It was wore than be could face* . 7 . • Where to go end wtant to do. Hairing no hone or fflittily to f greet him he returned to Munich not because i t had been kind to him in the poet but because he hod no other place to £<?• Efe co^ld tfifce . jip hie life agflin where he had left off fflur years earlier. He wan^ dered around Munich for a short tisae -a stray dog looking for a nat- ter" * Than i t la reported that ha went to ViecuiA to visit his half* BiJter, Angelnt with rtiotn he had had contact for many years. If he 1 • i " actually made thip trip he did not etey long for Soon we find him in • • B the reserve aray, stationed in Traunatein. * Ua ia in fl daep depr«s- r i F • eion. He wears tha uniform andJ eate the food of tho are^. It i s hie only roc our us And he Btayfl on there in this capacity until April, 1910, when the camp is broken up, Jl« then returned to Uunich s t i l l attachfld to the army-and living in the barr&aka, 0urine thio time ha fieems to have continued hie political dlacuosloi.s *ith his comrades Elding with the Social Democrats against the ComMuniHte* According to REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES