Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tino harikoa a Wiktorin mo te whakaurunga o Ahitereiria. Whai muri i te whakaurunga, i whakahokia mai ia ki te mahi, ka whakatairangahia ki te rangatira rangatira o te ope taua. I te Hōngongoi 1938, i riro ia hei rangatira mo te 20th Infantry Division. I whakahau a Wiktorin i te 20 o nga hoia i te whakaekenga o Poland, a, i tae atu ki te
Tiamana<unk>Rōpū hōia hōia i Brest-Litovsk me Heinz Guderian. I te marama o Mei 1940, i uru te 20th Infantry Division ki te whakaekenga o France.