after eight months in the army in france, in december 1940 he was taken off the frontline and switched to an "emergency" building project involving linz. the linz scheme was particularly dear to the leader's heart. sattler was assigned to it for most of the rest of the war. a personal benefit was that he was far closer to grendach where his wife and children were based permanently after 1943 when the family's munich apartment was bombed out.