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Willi Mentz was born on 30 April 1904 in the village of Schönhagen, then part of the German Empire. Like his father, he worked in a sawmill and then as a miner. In 1923, Mentz moved to Mecklenburg to train as a milker and he passed his master's examination in this profession in 1929. The same year he married and had 4 children.
In 1932, one year before Adolf Hitler came into power, Willi Mentz joined the Nazi Party and from 1934 to 1940, he worked as a master milker.
The Second World War began on 1 September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
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