 Complete the following phrase:  The populist tide nevertheless proved unstoppable: in January 1933 the Nazi Party took power and lost no time in transforming Germany into an unconstrained one-party dictatorship. Directly following the Reichstag fire at the end of February 1933, Chancellor Hitlers government blamed communists and launched a major round-up of those who had been active Communist politicians before the regime change. Johanna Ludewig fled, initially to Britain and then to Denmark. However, she returned to Germany in 1934 and took a job as a book keeper in Berlin. She was kept under police surveillance and on several occasions interviewed by the Gestapo. According to one source she was arrested in 1937, but there is no indication of any lengthy period of detention at this point. However, in 1944 the unsuccessful 