 According to his sister he was persuaded by comrades in the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group to apply to have his "fitness for military service" restored in order that he might join the army and create political opposition to the Nazis inside it.His wife always insisted that the application in question did not come from Klug at all.Either way, he was conscripted, not into the regular army but into a "Landsturm" (regional militia) .