 In 1939 The Schlitters purchased the "schloss", together with the surrounding estate, at , in the hills east of Ingolstadt.The family moved to Offenstetten where Daisy and their two children lived during the World War II which resumed in September 1939, although Schlitter's work kept him away from home for most of this time.Between 1939 and 1943 he was based at the Foreign Office in Berlin's government quarter.