Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Karl-Heinz Bartsch an haife shi ne a Löblau (Lublewo), wani yanki a cikin yankin Danziger Höhe, kusa da gabar arewacin Jamus. Mahaifinsa ya kasance manajan gonar gona. Karl-Heinz ya halarci makaranta a Danzig, ya kammala aikinsa na makaranta cikin nasara a 1940/41 a "Horst-Wessel-Gymnasium" na birni (makarantar sakandare). Shi dan kungiyar Hitler Youth ne. Bayan ya bar makaranta ya shiga cikin aikin horar da ƙasa a kan gidan Schwikow, yayin da yake aiki a matsayin ma'aikacin gona. A wannan lokacin ƙasar ta yi shekara ɗaya da rabi tana yaƙi, kuma a watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1941 ya ba da kansa don ya shiga rundunar Waffen-SS. An karɓa kuma an aika shi don horo na watanni biyar tare da abin da ake kira "Death-head" 3rd SS Tank Division. Daga baya ya shiga cikin "Götz von Berlichingen" SS Division. A cikin kaka / Fall 1942 an tura shi zuwa Faransa. A watan Yunin 1943 an tura shi zuwa gaban Rasha inda ya shiga kuma ya tsira daga yakin Kursk. Duk da haka ya ji rauni a watan Agusta 1943 kuma an ba shi lambar yabo ta Iron Cross Class 2. Tsakanin watan Agusta 1943 da Janairu 1944 ya kasance yana murmurewa a asibitin soja a Weiden in der Oberpfalz. Daga nan sai ya koma cikin rukunin "Götz von Berlichingen", yanzu an ba shi mukamin Unterscharführer ("mai sassaucin ra'ayi" ƙaramin kwamandan ""), kuma an sake shi zuwa Faransa.
Yaƙin ya ƙare a watan Mayu na 1945, kuma a wannan watan ne aka kama Bartsch kuma aka kama shi a matsayin fursunonin yaƙi da Amurkawa. A cikin Mayu / Yuni 1945 an tsare shi a cikin babban " sansanin 'yan gudun hijira " a Saalfelden (kusa da Salzburg) a Austria.