sentences:  He spent the years 1939 and 1940 as a soldier.From 1940 to 1942-43 he served as a reporter with special status for the foreign Nazi magazine "Signal", published in France, Belgium, occupied territories of the Soviet Union and in the Balkans.In 1943, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels assigned him to work on scripts for indispensable propagandistic "Kulturfilme".