Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tohua a Wietersheim hei rangatira mo te reimana pupuhi o te 1st Panzer-Division i te 20 o Hurae 1941, i uru ai ia 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, kei te tonga o Wīwī a Wietersheim, e whakahau ana i te 11th Panzer Division i a ia e anga ana ki te Allied amphibious
te taunga ki te taha o Toulon me Nice. 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.