With her help, Steiner conducted several speech and drama courses with the aim of raising these forms to the level of true art. Politics According to fellow anthroposophist Hans Büchenbacher, Steiner-von Sivers was "completely pro-Nazi." She, Guenther Wachsmuth, and Albert Steffen, had publicly expressed sympathy for the Nazi regime since its beginnings; led by such sympathies of their leadership, the Swiss and German Anthroposophical organizations chose for a path conflating accommodation with collaboration, which in the end ensured that while the Nazi regime hunted the esoteric organizations, Gentile Anthroposophists from Nazi Germany and countries occupied by it were let be to a surprising extent. Of course they had some setbacks from the enemies of Anthroposophy among the upper echelons of the Nazi regime, but Anthroposophists also had loyal supporters among them, so overall Gentile Anthroposophists were not badly hit by the Nazi regime. When Rudolf Hess defected to UK, their most powerful protector was gone, but Anthroposophists were still not left without supporters among higher-placed Nazis. See also Édouard Schuré References Biographical resources Marie Savitch, Marie Steiner-von Sivers: Fellow worker with Rudolf Steiner, London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1967; . Hans Peter van Manen, Marie Steiner: Her place in world karma, London: Temple Lodge, 1995; . Wilfried Hammacher, Marie Steiner: Lebensspuren einer Individualität, Stuttgart: Verlag Freies Geistesleben, 1998 (German); . External links Biography (German) History of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung (German) 1867 births 1948 deaths Baltic-German people People from Włocławek Anthroposophists Place of death missing