Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I uru a Trautmann ki te Luftwaffe hei kaiwhakahaere reo irirangi i te tau 1941. I a ia e whakangungu ana, kaore ia i tino pai ki te mahi irirangi, ka tukuna ki Spandau hei "Fallschirmjäger" (paratrooper). I mahi tuatahi ia i
I nohoia a Poland, ahakoa i tu i muri o te raina o mua i ahu mai i te mauiui mo tana rerenga, i uru ki nga hakinakina me nga taatai whaihua hei tuku i te waa. Ko tētahi o aua pāhekoheko e pā ana ki tētahi motokā, i hē ki a Trautmann, nā reira i tahuna ai e tētahi kaitiaki kaimahi ōna ringa. I whakawakia a Trautmann ki te kooti hōia, a, i whiua ki te toru marama ki te whare herehere. I te timatanga o tana herehere, i mate a Trautmann i te mate appendicitis, a ka pau i a ia te toenga o tana whiu i roto i te hohipera hoia.