Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakairihia te 262nd Infantry Division ki te taha o te Raina Maginot i te mutunga o te tau 1939 ka noho ki reira tae noa ki te mutunga o te Pakanga o Parani. I te marama o Hepetema 1940, ka tukuna te wehenga ki
I noho a Poland, i uru ki te "Operation Barbarossa" i te Hune 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.