1. Wilhelm Adam was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
11 Facts About Wilhelm Adam
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From October 1913 to January 1919 Wilhelm Adam served in the Imperial German Army.
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Wilhelm Adam saw action during World War I and reached the rank of Lieutenant.
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Wilhelm Adam's son was killed in France in World War II on 16 May 1940.
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In 1939 Wilhelm Adam was appointed an adjutant in the XXIII Army Corps, under the Army Commanders Walther von Reichenau and later in 1941, Friedrich Paulus.
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On 31 January 1943, now a colonel, Wilhelm Adam was captured by the Soviet Army after the surrender at Stalingrad, where he was interrogated by Nikolay Dyatlenko.
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Wilhelm Adam was sentenced to death in absentia by a Nazi German court.
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In 1948, Wilhelm Adam returned to Germany, specifically to what had become the Soviet occupation zone in Germany.
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Wilhelm Adam was among the co-founders of the National Democratic Party of Germany, an East German political party that acted as an organization for former members of the Nazi Party and the Wehrmacht.
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In 1952, Wilhelm Adam became a colonel in the Kasernierte Volkspolizei, the forerunner of the East German National People's Army.
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Wilhelm Adam kept on working, though, for the Working Group of Former Officers.