Adolf Diekmann was born on the 8th of December 1914 in Magdeburg then part of the German Empire. Although his father was a primary school teacher, Diekmann left school in 1932 at age 17.
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. In April 1933 Diekmann joined the Nazi Party and in May of the same year he became a member of the SS. He then completed his high school education at a Nazi secondary boarding school, in Naumburg, earning his degree in December 1935.
When in August 1938 Diekmann completed a course and was promoted to Second Lieutenant, he then became a part of the so-called SS-VT unit, which was a mechanized infantry unit at the disposal of the Führer, Adolf Hitler.
The SS-VT served as a small, elite unit within the SS, separate from the regular German Army and after the outbreak of Second World War it was expanded and reorganized into the Waffen-SS, which was the military branch of the SS.
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