 "T5" status was usually only granted if a person had physical or mental disabilities or was otherwise significantly impaired, such as due to very poor eyesight or debilitating chronic illnesses.Another way to get out of service completely was the "two brothers rule", which stated that if two older brothers had already served in the military, any following male children of a family were exempt from service.Due to West Berlin's special status between the end of the Second World War and 1990 as a city governed by foreign military powers, draft did not apply within its borders.