Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daruruwan dubban 'yan Jamus sun ƙare a cikin zurfin Soviet Union a lokacin da yakin ya ƙare
a watan Mayun 1945, galibi a matsayin 'yan gudun hijirar siyasa ko a matsayin fursunonin yaki, kuma ga mafi yawansu zai ɗauki watanni da yawa ko shekaru da yawa kafin su iya dawowa. Duk da haka, a ranar 30 ga Afrilu, 1945, wani rukuni na mutum talatin - wanda ake kira Ulbricht Group - ya zo daga Moscow ta jirgin sama a Berlin, yana son ba da ɓata lokaci ba wajen aiwatar da aikin su na yankin Soviet, babban yanki na tsakiyar abin da ya kasance Jamus a baya, sandwiched tsakanin yankuna uku na "yamma" da kuma kashi uku na gabashin abin da ya kasance Jamus, wanda yanzu aka haɗa shi cikin Poland, Tarayyar Soviet da Czechoslovakia. Abokin aikin Schmidt, Anton Ackermann, ya kasance babban memba na wannan rukuni na mutum talatin. Elli Schmidt da kanta ta koma Jamus a watan Yunin 1945 a lokaci guda kamar Wilhelm Pieck. Har yanzu tana cikin Kwamitin Tsakiya na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Jamus (wanda ba a hana shi ba). Ita da Ackermann sun kasance biyu daga cikin masu sa hannu goma sha shida na "Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Jam'iyyar Kwaminis... ga mutanen Jamus" na 11 ga Yuni 1945 (har yanzu tana amfani da sunan sa na jam'iyyar, "Irene Gärtner"). Yayin da tsarin jam'iyyar ya fara fitowa, a watan Yuli ta zama memba na Sakatariyar Kwamitin Tsakiya na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis, kuma ta yi aiki a cikin 1945/46 a matsayin shugabar Kwamitin Mata na Kwamitin Kwamitin Kwamitin Jam'iyyar Kwaminis.