Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te pakarutanga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ko te Kaiwhakahaere Matua o te Ope Taua o Tiamana (te OKH) i riro i a ia tana whakahaere i te wa o te pakanga. I haere tahi a Heusinger me nga kaimahi o te mara, i awhina i te whakamahere i nga mahi mo nga whakaekenga o Poland,
Denmark, Norway, me Wīwī, me ngā Whenua o raro. I whakatairangahia ia ki te koronel i te 1 o Akuhata 1940, a ka noho ia hei rangatira o te "Operationsabteilung" i te Oketopa 1940, ka waiho ia hei nama tuatoru i roto i te raupapa whakamahere ope taua, whai muri i te Tumuaki o te Kaimahi Matua, a General Franz Halder, me te Tumuaki Tuarua o te Kaimahi Matua / Tumuaki Quartermaster, a General Friedrich Paulus.