Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I karangatia a Rendulic ki te ope taua o Tiamana, te Wehrmacht, i te tau 1938, i muri i te whakakotahitanga o Ahitereiria ki Tiamana. I whakahaua e ia te 14th Infantry Division (23 Pipiri <unk> 10 Oketopa 1940); te 52nd Infantry Division (1940<unk>1942); me te XXXV Corps (1942<unk>1943), i uru atu ai ia ki te pakanga o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.
Te Pakanga o Kursk. Mai i te 1943 ki te 1944, i whakahau a Rendulic i te 2nd Panzer Army i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao i Yugoslavia. I te timatanga o te tau 1944, i whakahaua e te Kaiwhakahaere Tiamana a Adolf Hitler a Rendulic kia whakaarohia he mahere ki te hopu i te kaiarahi o te roopu Yugoslav Josip Broz Tito. I roto i te whakaekenga i runga i Drvar i te 25 o Mei 1944, i whakaekehia e nga hoia paramanahi a Tiamana te tari matua o te roopu i Drvar (Bosnia ki te hauauru) e rapu ana i a Tito engari i te mutunga kaore i taea te hopu ia ia, i mate te mate nui.