 Here she was accused of espionage.It was only through the energetic persistence of her mother, who was able to call upon backing from prominent celebrities in good standing with the Soviet authorities, including Johannes R. Becher, Gustav von Wangenheim and Günther Weisenborn, that after eleven days she was released and unceremoniously flown out of the city, ending up in Frankfurt am Main, which was in the western part of occupied Germany and a principal administrative base for the .She quickly moved on to Munich, also in the American zone, which is where she now built a new life.