Dr. Wilhelm Dellemann

Wilhelm Dellemann was imprisoned for three days as a secondary school pupil in 1938 because a home-made amateur radio was found in his possession. After graduating from high school and completing the Reich Labor Service, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. When France surrendered to the German army (June 1940), he was standing in a café with a fellow German soldier in full costume, and they toasted each other loudly with shouts of "Vive Ia France".

An older man in civilian clothes identifies himself as a Gestapo officer and persuades the two to make the caps and ribbons disappear, claiming to have been a couleur student himself.

Wilhelm Dellemann gets into no further trouble, is in the Wehrmacht until February 1945 and is then sent to Tyrol for industrial deployment. He came into contact with the resistance groups through his brother Josef Schneeberger and took part in the Tyrolean liberation struggle.