that "through my long stay in Poland [I] now feel complete solidarity with the people of Poland. I espouse myself completely to Polish nationality and can only admire their courageous attitude". Her tasks as a member of the resistance movement included delivering messages and acting as a courier and disseminating information and listening to and disseminating news from abroad, especially the BBC, all of which could have earned her the death penalty. She was frequently interrogated but never arrested, and maintained that she believed the Nazi authorities never suspected that she was an active member of the resistance movement. During the war she did not tell anyone outside the Home Army of her engagement there, not even her husband or children. In autumn 1940 she was forced to leave her estate and to go live in Wisła, where she stood under surveillance. Even so, she enjoyed a relative degree of freedom and managed to travel to both Berlin and Cologne, despite this being forbidden. She also kept acting as a courier for the resistance. In October 1942 Alice, together with her husband and their daughter Renata, were transferred to a labour camp in Strausberg, in Germany. Alice refused to perform her assigned duties, stating that "Although no work is shameful, I refuse to work for the Hitlerite regime"; an act of disobedience that went nonetheless unpunished. She was explicitly forbidden from interacting with the Polish forced laborers at the camp. Her husband, now released from prison, was however allowed to leave and, being in poor health after his treatment in prison, went to a hospital in Vienna upon his wife's insistence. He returned to Strausberg to be with his family in summer 1943. Alice Habsburg stayed in Straussberg until the end of the war. She and her husband were liberated, together with many other camp inmates, on 10 April 1945 by American troops. Later life In 1946 she was awarded the Polish Cross of Valour by the Polish government. On 15 December 1949 she was accorded the hereditary title of Princess of Altenburg by the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The communist regime in Poland did not however restore any of the property to the family, and Alice and her husband and daughters, significantly impoverished, eventually settled in Sweden, helped by Alice's Swedish relatives. She lived there in a two-room, second floor apartment. She died in Saltsjöbaden in 1985