Early Life
Dieter Kesten was born on 9 June 1914 at Gelsenkirchen. He volunteered to join the SS in September 1933, and served with the 7th and 79th Standarte, before being selected to become an officer and was posted to the SS-Junkerschule at Braunschweig in April 1936. After graduation he was posted to II.Battalion, Germania Regiment, becoming the Ordonnanz offizier on the regimental staff.
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