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I was watching this documentary on the life of Hitler and this point was raised. When Hitler volunteered to serve in the 16th Bavarian Infantry Reserve Regiment, he should have been deported back to Austria because he wasn't a German citizen at the time (he didn't get his German citizenship until February 25, 1932). Instead a clerical error (and the likelihood that Germany needed all the troops it could get) allowed him to fight for Germany. How might things have changed if Hitler had been sent back to Austria and possibly drafted to serve in the Austro-Hungarian army?
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