 The team finished poorly in a promotion playoff in 1940 and did not re-join top flight competition until 1943, earning a third-place finish in 1943–44.Play in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg came to an end part way through the 1944–45 season as Allied forces rolled through Germany.The disbanded club was re-formed in 1948 as "SG Karl Marx Babelsberg" by its one-time membership and on 1 August 1949 they were joined by "SG Drewitz" which had been established 4 December 1948.