Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I whakairihia te 262nd Infantry Division ki te taha o te Raina Maginot i te mutunga o te tau 1939 ka noho tonu ki reira tae noa ki te mutunga o te Pakanga o France. I te marama o Mahuru 1940, i tukuna te wehenga ki te whenua o Poland
, ka uru ki te "Operation Barbarossa" i te Pipiri 1941. I ahu whakamua ma Brody, Zhytomyr, Kiev me Bryansk ka tukuna ki te Pakanga o Moscow. I te 1942, i mahi i raro i te Army Group Center. I te 15 Mahuru 1942, ko Friedrich Karst te whakakapi i a Theisen hei rangatira wehenga.