Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Karl-Heinz Bartsch i Löblau (Lublewo), he taone nui i te rohe o Danziger Höhe, tata ki te takutai raki o Tiamana. He kaiwhakahaere pāmu tana papa. I haere a Karl-Heinz ki te kura i Danzig, i angitu tana mahi kura i te tau 1940/41 i te "Horst-Wessel-Gymnasium" o te taone nui (kura tuarua). He mema ia o te Hitler Youth. I tana wehenga mai i te kura, ka uru ia ki te whakangungu whakahaere whenua i runga i te whenua o Schwikow, i a ia e mahi ana hei kaimahi ahuwhenua. Kua kotahi tau me te hawhe te wā e whawhai ana te whenua, ā, i te Paenga-whāwhā o te tau 1941 i tono ia kia uru atu ki te Waffen-SS. I whakaaetia ia, a, i tukuna ia mo te whakangungu mo te rima marama me te mea e kiia nei ko te "Death-head" 3rd SS Tank Division. I muri mai ka uru atu ia ki te "Götz von Berlichingen" SS Division. I te ngahuru / ngahuru 1942 i tukuna ia ki Parani. I te Pipiri 1943 i tukuna ia ki te mua o Ruhia i reira i uru ai ia ki te Pakanga o Kursk. Heoi, i whara ia i Akuhata 1943 ka whakawhiwhia ki te Iron Cross 2nd Class. I waenga i Akuhata 1943 me Hanuere 1944 i ora ia i roto i te hohipera hoia i Weiden i der Oberpfalz. Katahi ka uru atu ia ki te wehenga "Götz von Berlichingen", i whakatairangahia inaianei ki te taumata o Unterscharführer ("loose "kaiarahi roopu rangatahi""), ka tukuna ano ki Parani.
I mutu te pakanga i te marama o Mei 1945, a i taua marama ano ka hopukina a Bartsch, ka puritia hei Piriona o te Pakanga e nga Amerikana. I te marama o Mei/Hune 1945 i puritia ia i roto i te "wāhi nui o te hunga whakarere" i Saalfelden (tata ki Salzburg) i Austria.