 Many of the political refugees from Germany who had settled in Moscow during the 1930s in order to get away from Hitler, and then were evacuated with the native Muscovites in 1941, were left in their remote places of exile for years. Vazhinji vevapoteri vezvematongerwo enyika vaibva kuGermany avo vakanga vagara muMoscow mumakore ekuma1930 kuti vatize Hitler, uye vakazobviswa pamwe chete nevagari vemuMoscow muna 1941, vakasiyiwa munzvimbo dzavo dziri kure dzekudzingwa kwemakore. Vamwe vakabatana nemazana ezviuru evasungwa vehondo vakanga vapona kukundwa kukuru kwehondo paStalingrad, chete kuti apedzisire ari mumisasa yeSoviet. Munyori Mukuru webato Stalin akanga ari murume asina kuvimbika zvikuru munguva yakanakisisa, uye kusvika kwavarwi veGermany vane mamiriyoni matatu vakashongedzerwa zvakanaka munharaunda yeSoviet muna June 1941, pamwe chete nokuuraya nokuparadza kwakatevera, sezviri pachena kwakamuita asina kuvimba zvikuru kupfuura nakare kose navanhu veGermany. Asi kwakanga kuchine shamwari shomanene dzechiGermany dzaaivimba nadzo. Wilhelm Pieck uyo akanga arwara zvakakomba somunhu akanga abviswa muBachkiria akadzokera kuMoscow musi wa 27 March 1942. Hazvina kujeka kana Eleonore nomurume wake vakamuperekedza, asi iye zvirokwazvo akanga adzokera kuMoscow pakupera kwa1942. Mukati ma194243 aishanda neInternational Red Aid semukuru wedhipatimendi reVapanduki vezvematongerwo enyika muchikamu cheSoviet chesangano. Mukati ma1943 akaunganidzwa nePeoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs Interior Ministry kuti ajoine timu yekunyora redhiyo, sezvo zvirongwa zvakagadzirirwa chirongwa chekudzidzisa, chaida kutarisira nehurumende zvinodiwa nevasungwa vazhinji veGerman veHondo vakasungwa mumisasa yeSoviet. 