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Wolfram Dufner (* 7). August 1926 in Constance) is a former German diplomat and writer.

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Wolfram Dufner was born the son of a financial officer in Konstanz. Due to an official transfer of his father, the family moved to Kenzingen in 1933 and to Hornberg in 1935. During the period of National Socialism, Dufner attended elementary schools in Kenzingen and Hornberg and moved to the “Higher Civic School” there in 1936, a four-class preschool for the Realgymnasium (“Black Forest School”) in Triberg, which Dufner attended from 1941. At the age of ten, Dufner joined the Jungvolk and at the age of fourteen in the Hitler Youth, to which he belonged until the age of 18, 1944 as HJ-Führer; According to his own statements, this was done out of conviction: “One had to confess, six years after the NSDAP took power, and I enthusiastically acknowledged the Führer and his empire.” In his 1982 autobiography, Dufner went on to say that Hitler is a human and historical phenomenon that cannot yet be classified in a definitively explicable category. We boys saw in him the great national model, the savior of the nation, the historical stroke of fortune.

After taking part in a “Führerlehr Course” of the German Young People in Hornberg in 1940, Dufner became a “Jungzugführer” in the HJ ban 733. In the spring of 1942, Dufner came to Lahr for a two-week military training course at the HJ Territory Fuehrer School. On 25 January 1944 he applied for admission to the NSDAP and was admitted on 20 April of the same year (membership number 9.729.754). In 1944, Dufner completed his Reicharbeitsdienst (RAD) in occupied Odolanów and Łódź; He was called in before his graduation or school. In June 1944 Dufner was drafted into the Wehrmacht and came according to his own information after his basic military training and the swearing in as reserve officer applicant (ROB) in Böblingen in autumn 1944 in the tank officers school in Erlangen.

From there he finally came in March 1945 to a front-line operation in the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther against the advancing American forces in the lower Franconian market wide. Already on the first day of operation Dufner was wounded and was out for another use in the tank troop. Since April 24, 1945, Dufner was a military internee in Switzerland, after he had settled over Triberg and the western Lake Constance region in the “flow of erring troops and refugees” because of his wounding. In a Swiss internment camp near Baden he experienced on the 8th. May 1945 the end of the war.

In October 1945 he was admitted to study at the University of Zurich as a military internee in Switzerland and without a high school diploma and, according to his own statements, took lectures in law, history, art history and music; later also economic