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After Joachim Scholz had completed an emergency high school diploma in Danzig at the age of 17, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. He pursued a career as an officer and was sent to the Eastern Front in 1944 as an artillery lieutenant. The fact that he, just 19 years old, was now supposed to command men who had already been fighting for years initially caused Scholz to have self-doubts.