Military Service
Like his mentor Heimpel, the young Schlesinger was initially supportive of the National Socialist movement (actually he had become a member of the NSDAP as soon as 1929). Over the course of his tour of duty, however, he came to realize the folly of Germany's war and when a letter he wrote containing criticisms of Hitler's regime was intercepted by censors, he was punished by being assigned to a high-risk battalion fighting anti-Nazi insurgents in the Balkans. Schlesinger was critically wounded in action and subsequently discharged.
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