I turned down registration in the Waffen-SS and instead joined the Wehrmacht. He told me never to shoot a human being who is not threatening me or not carrying a weapon. My father had served in World War I and had experienced bad things. What prompted you to enter the Wehrmacht? Last June he met with journalist Liesl Bradner near Utah Beach and spoke about his wartime experiences. The 92-year-old resides in the summer resort town of Königswinter, Germany. Ten years later he entered his country’s diplomatic service, retiring in 1990. In 1948 he returned home and joined the West German Federal Border Guard. Golz spent the rest of the war in a POW camp in Virginia. That morning he saw scores of them and within days was a prisoner of the Allies. He was on guard duty on France’s Normandy coast in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, tasked with scanning the skies for enemy planes.
Paul Golz was born in Pomerania, near the Baltic Sea, on April 4, 1925, and was just 17 years old when he joined the Wehrmacht in the fall of 1943.
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