Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Karl-Heinz Bartsch na Löblau (Lublewo), nke dị na mpaghara Danziger Höhe, nke dị nso n'ụsọ oké osimiri ebe ugwu Germany. Nna ya bụ onye na-elekọta ugbo. Karl-Heinz gara ụlọ akwụkwọ na Danzig, jiri ihe ịga nke ọma mezue ọrụ ụlọ akwụkwọ ya na 1940/41 na obodo "Horst-Wessel-Gymnasium" (ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị). Ọ bụ onye òtù nke Òtù Ndị Ntorobịa Hitler. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ debanyere aha na ọzụzụ nchịkwa ala na ala Schwikow, ebe ọ na-arụkwa ọrụ dị ka onye ọrụ ugbo. Ka ọ na-erule n'oge ahụ, mba ahụ anọwo na-alụ agha ruo otu afọ na ọkara, n'April 1941 kwa, o wepụtara onwe ya isonyere ndị agha Waffen-SS. A nabatara ya ma ziga ya maka ọzụzụ ọnwa ise na nke a na-akpọ "Death-head" 3rd SS Tank Division. O mechara sonye na ngalaba SS "Götz von Berlichingen". N'oge mgbụsị akwụkwọ / mgbụsị akwụkwọ nke 1942, e zigara ya France. Na June 1943 e zigara ya n'ihu agha Russia ebe o sonyere ma lanarị Agha nke Kursk. Agbanyeghị, ọ merụrụ ahụ na Ọgọstụ 1943 ma nye ya obe Iron nke klas nke abụọ. N'agbata Ọgọst 1943 na Jenụwarị 1944 ọ nọ na-agbake n'ụlọ ọgwụ ndị agha na Weiden in der Oberpfalz. Mgbe ahụ, ọ laghachiri na "Götz von Berlichingen" nkewa, ugbu a kwalitere ya na ọkwa nke Unterscharführer ("loose "junior squadron leader""), wee zighachi France.
Agha ahụ biri na Mee 1945, n'otu ọnwa ahụkwa, ndị America jidere Bartsch ma jide ya dị ka Onye Mkpọrọ Agha. N'agbata May na June 1945, a kpọchiri ya n'otu nnukwu "ogige ndị gbara ọsọ ndụ" dị na Saalfelden (nke dị nso na Salzburg) n'Austria.