Early Life
Wegener's first military experience was when he was conscripted into the Luftwaffe as a 15 year old during the final days of WW2. As a result of this he spent a brief period as a prisoner in a US POW camp at the end of the war. In the early 1950s Wegener was arrested for the illegal distribution of dissident pamphlets within East Germany and was imprisoned for one year. In 1952 Wegener moved to West Germany and participated in entrance examinations for the Officer Candidate School of the German Armed Forces.
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