Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Wietersheim akagadzwa kuve mutungamiri weboka revapfuri ve1st Panzer-Division musi wa20 Chikunguru 1941, iyo yaakatora chikamu mukupinda muSoviet Union, Operation Barbarossa. 1st Panzer Division yakanga iri pasi pePanzer Group 4 pasi pemutungamiri weGeneral Erich Hoepner anoshanda kuchamhembe kweEastern Front. Mukupera kwa 1944, Wietersheim akanga ari kumaodzanyemba kweFrance, achitungamirira 11th Panzer Division sezvo yakatarisana neAllied amphibious landings pedyo neToulon neNice
. Wietersheim akazvipa kuUS 90th Infantry Division muna May 1945, muCzechoslovakia pedyo nomuganhu neBavaria.