Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: Masu leken asiri sun shiga cikin SPD na Bremen a cikin 1934. A watan Nuwambar 1934 Hermine Berthold da Anna Stiegler, tare da yawancin abokan jam'iyyar sun ci amanar hukumomi kuma aka kama su. Zargin da aka saba da shi na "shiryawa don aikata babban cin amanar ƙasa" ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat"), kuma hukuncin da aka yanke shi ne ɗaurin shekara huɗu a kurkuku. A lokacin shari'arta da yanke hukunci Berthold ya riga ya kasance a cikin "a tsare bincike" a Bremen's "Ostertorwache" (kamar yadda aka sani da kafa a lokacin). Ta yi shekaru uku masu zuwa a kurkukun mata a Lübeck-Lauerhof. A nan ta zama abokantaka da kawai kwaminisanci daga Bremen da aka tsare a Lübeck, Käthe Popall. Bayan
1945, a duk faɗin Jamus ta Yamma, dangantakar da ke tsakanin SPD da Jam'iyyar Kwaminis, ta zama mai sanyi, amma a Bremen Hermine Berthold da Käthe Popall za su kasance abokai mafi ƙarfi a cikin shekarun da suka biyo baya. A shekara ta 1938, an soke hukuncinta, an saki Hermine Berthold. Bayan shekara guda, a ranar 1 ga Satumba 1939, yayin da sojojin Jamus da na Soviet suka mamaye Poland daga bangarorin biyu, an sake kama Berthold saboda ta kasa bin ka'idodin da hukumomi suka sanya. Duk da barazanar Gestapo, ta ci gaba da yin hulɗa da abokai (masu son siyasa) daga shekarun kafin Nazi. Wata uku bayan an sake kama ta, abin mamaki, an sake ta. Wannan ya kasance ne saboda, kai tsaye kafin a kama ta, mijinta ya sami mummunan hatsari a tashar jiragen ruwa, inda a bayyane yake har yanzu yana aiki.