("Aufstand und Hochverrat"). She was acquitted. However, the court also dismissed her claim for compensation because the "suspicion that she had participated in the disturbances" had not been sufficiently invalidated. The indictment against her had alleged that during the days of fighting she had loaded up the gun belts of the fighters with cartridges in the canteen used by the bakery "coachmen" (delivery drivers). Despite her acquittal she lost her job with the bakery and remained unemployed till 1938. In March 1938 Fascist Austria was formally incorporated into an enlarged Nazi Germany following a largely unresisted military invasion from the north-west. That year Käthe Odwody returned to her job at the Ankerbot bakery. It was also that year that the factory owners, the Mendl family, whom the authorities had identified as Jewish, escaped to Switzerland. The factory was expropriated by the authorities and "aryanised" but it remained a focus of trades union activism. At the start of 1939 a strike took place at the factory against the equalisation of payroll taxes (which before 1938 had been much higher in Germany than in Austria). There had been no compensating wage increase at the bakery to compensate. The Gestapo crushed the strike and intensified their surveillance and supervision activities at the plant. Odwody reacted by joining the (since 1933 illegal) Communist Party. In Autumn 1940 she was accepted into the local leadership team ("Bezirksleitung") for the Favoriten district of Vienna, which was still her home. She became a party official and contributed to party work by collecting membership subscriptions and secretly distributing Die Rote Fahne ("Red Flag"), the party newspaper. She became a member of the so-called "Siegl Group", a resistance group which took its name from the cover name used by its leader, Rudolf Fischer. Odwody's own cover name in the group was "Walli". Rudolf and Maria Fischer were arrested on 29 April 1941. Franz and Käthe Odwody were arrested the same day. Franz was suspected of having collaborated with his wife in respect of her resistance activities. He was nevertheless released on 17 May 1941. His wife remained in state custody. Rudolf and Maria Fischer were executed at the district court complex on 28 January 1943 and 30 March 1943. Käthe Odwody finally faced the special people's court in Vienna on 9 November 1942. The charge was the usual one under these circumstances of "preparing to commit High Treason" ("Vorbereitung