Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A họpụtara Wietersheim ka ọ bụrụ onye isi nke ndị agha egbe nke 1st Panzer-Division na 20 Julaị 1941, nke o so na mbuso agha nke Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa. Ngalaba Panzer nke 1 nọ n'okpuru Panzer Group 4 n'okpuru iwu nke General Erich Hoepner na-arụ ọrụ na mpaghara ugwu nke Eastern Front. Na ngwụcha afọ 1944, Wietersheim nọ na ndịda France, na-enye ndị 11th Panzer Division iwu ka ọ na-eche ndị Allied amphibious
ụgbọelu ndị kwụsịrị n'akụkụ Toulon na Nice. Wietersheim nyefere ndị US 90th Infantry Division na Mee 1945, na Czechoslovakia nso ókèala na Bavaria.