Military policemen searched on foot for draft dodgers and deserters.
Even when a case was notified, the police were unlikely to apprehend the deserter.!
They helped concentrate the minds of local officials who desperately tried to get individuals removed from the lists of deserters.
The deserters flocked to enlist not out of a desire to leave the war, but from fear of being made to abandon their country.
At the outset, the secret police regarded them as potential spies, deserters or subversives.
An escapee is 'one who escapes' in the same way as a deserter is 'one who deserts'.
There were those who would not perform the works of a 'deserter'/pacifist.
He presented evacuees as akin to deserters from both the labour and the military fronts.
