Soldier and Prisoner of War
In 1942 he was called up by the Wehrmacht and served in Northern France as an assistant adjutant (Ordonnanzoffizier) with the rank of first lieutenant (Oberleutnant). On 26 June 1944, during the Battle of Cherbourg, he was captured by the Americans and sent to Camp Como, a prisoner-of-war camp in Mississippi.
He remained in the prisoner-of-war camp from June 1944 to mid-1945. While there, he started a "camp university", where he held law courses for the prisoners. As part of Project 'Sunflower, a secret project to re-educate German POWs, he attended an "administrative school" at Fort Getty, where teaching included the principles of the American Constitution.
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