Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I tohua a Wietersheim hei rangatira o tētahi pu o te 1st Panzer-Division i te 20 o Hōngongoi 1941, nāna i whai wāhi ki te whakaekenga o te Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa. Ko te 1st Panzer Division i raro i te Panzer Group 4 i raro i te whakahau a General Erich Hoepner e mahi ana i te rohe raki o te Rāwhiti Rāwhiti. I te mutunga o te tau 1944, i Wietersheim i te tonga o Parani, e whakahau ana i te 11th Panzer Division i a ia e aro ana ki nga taunga amphibious a Allied e tata ana ki Toulon me Nice
He aha? I tukuna a Wietersheim ki te US 90th Infantry Division i te marama o Mei 1945, i Czechoslovakia e tata ana ki te rohe me Bavaria.