Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An nada Wietersheim kwamandan rundunar bindigogi ta 1st Panzer-Division a ranar 20 ga Yuli, 1941, wanda ya shiga cikin mamayewar Tarayyar Soviet, Operation Barbarossa. Rukunin Panzer na 1 ya kasance ƙarƙashin Panzer Group 4 a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Janar Erich Hoepner wanda ke aiki a yankin arewacin Gabas ta Gabas. A ƙarshen 1944, Wietersheim yana kudancin Faransa, yana umurni da 11th Panzer Division yayin da yake fuskantar Allied amphibious landings kusa da Toulon da Nice
Ka yi haƙuri. Wietersheim ya mika wuya ga Rundunar Sojojin Amurka ta 90 a watan Mayu 1945, a Czechoslovakia kusa da iyakar Bavaria.