Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Mai goyon bayan tsohon tsarin siyasa na Monarchist, Strecker ya yi maraba da hauhawar Hitler. Yayin da cin zarafin mulkin ya bayyana, Strecker ya fara haɓaka. Dangane da tarihin rayuwar da jikansa, Ulli Haller, ya wallafa, Strecker bai yarda da Nazi na anti-Yahudawa ba
da kuma tsarkakewa na 1934 amma ya duba da Yunƙurin na Nazis kamar yadda ba gaba ɗaya unwelcome. Ya koma Sojojin a matsayin "Janarmaja" a 1935. Ya gaya wa wani abokinsa: "Abin da nake so shi ne: duk inda nake, ina tare da shi da dukan zuciyata. Ni yanzu soja ne, don haka siyasa ta ita ce biyayya... Duk abin da yake ko zai iya zama, na yarda da duka ba tare da jinkiri ba. " Kamar yadda aka haɗa da manyan jami'ai da yawa a cikin Wehrmacht mai saurin fadadawa, an ba Strecker jerin umarni da sauri a ƙasa da matsayinsa na asali don shirya shi da sauri don manyan umarnin yaƙi. An sanya shi mataimakin kwamandan na 34. Infanterie-Division (34th Infantry Division) a watan Nuwamba 1938 sannan aka ba shi umurnin 79. Rundunar Sojoji (79th Infantry Division), wanda aka kafa ta hanyar fadada 34th Division a lokacin rani na 1939.