[citation needed] In December 1943, he received word that a member of the battalion, Falk Harnack, was to be arrested on order of the Gestapo for his connections to the White Rose through Lilo Ramdohr.

[1] In 1944, Fauth saved a group of Greek partisans about to be shot by the SS, by getting them assigned to his Wehrmacht battalion as forced laborers to work on telephone repairs he insisted were urgently needed.

In 1948, he published a book called Ruf an die deutsche Jugend (Verlag der Zwölf),[3] which extensively detailed the First International Youth Rally in Munich from June 28 – July 4, 1947.

[4] In 1950, Fauth was invited to be an adviser for youth activities on a trip to the United States to study abroad within the framework of a cultural exchange program with Bavaria.

[5] In August 1953, Fauth published an article about child rearing, Kritik der staatsbürgerlichen Erziehung in Deutsche Jugend, the publication of the Deutscher Bundesjugendring.