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My bad for the absence, been busy, try to at most have each part of my short biography here a week each at a time.
Part 2.

Michael Wittmann spent his childhood and teenage years on the family farm in the quiet Bavarian village of Vogelthal. After finishing school around 1930 at age sixteen, he joined his father and younger brother in the daily work of running the household and land. The post-World War I years had already made farming a struggle for many rural families like theirs—hyperinflation in the early 1920s followed by the deepening effects of the Great Depression meant tight resources, long hours, and constant uncertainty. The Wittmanns moved between nearby villages at times as Johann tried to keep the business afloat, and young Michael learned practical skills with tools, machinery, and livestock that would later serve him well.

By late 1932 the economic pressure became severe enough that Johann left the farm and moved to the city of Ingolstadt to find steadier work, taking Johann Jr. (who had trained as a baker) with him. Michael, then eighteen, remained behind with his mother Ursula and the younger sisters, shouldering much of the responsibility for keeping the farm going. He stayed on through the summer of 1933 before taking a short three-month job at a local dairy. Dissatisfied with the limited prospects of farm life and drawn by the structure and opportunities of the expanding military, he volunteered for the Reich Labour Service (RAD) in February 1934. After six months of that service he enlisted in the German Army on 30 October 1934, beginning his formal military career with the 19th Infantry Regiment in Freising.