Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Agusta 1933, ya shiga Jungvolk, ƙaramin sashi na Matasan Hitler. Trautmann ya shiga Luftwaffe a farkon yakin duniya na biyu, sannan ya yi aiki a matsayin dan wasan parachute. Ya fara aiki a Poland da aka mamaye
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya yi yaƙi a Gabas ta Gabas na tsawon shekaru uku, ya sami lambobin yabo guda biyar, ciki har da Iron Cross. Daga baya a cikin yaƙin, an tura shi zuwa Yammacin Yamma, inda Birtaniyya ta kama shi yayin da yaƙin ya kusa ƙarewa. A matsayinsa na soja mai son rai, hukumomi sun sanya shi a matsayin fursuna na "C", ma'ana an dauke shi a matsayin Nazi. Daya daga cikin 90 na rukunin sa na asali na mutane 1,000 da suka tsira daga yaƙin, an tura shi zuwa sansanin fursunonin yaƙi a Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Trautmann ya ki amincewa da tayin dawowa gida, kuma bayan da aka sake shi a 1948, ya zauna a Lancashire, yana hada aikin gona tare da buga wasan mai tsaron gida ga kungiyar kwallon kafa ta gida, St Helens Town.