the end of the war in may 1945 put an end to the nazi regime and, some thought, to single party dictatorship in germany. cläre jung lost no time in joining the communist party. in april 1946 a contentious merger between the old communist party and the moderate-left spd created the basis for a return to one- party rule in this portion of germany. jung was one of thousands of communists who now lost little time in signing their party membership across to the new socialist unity party ("sozialistische einheitspartei deutschlands", sed), which had resulted from the merger. 1946 also saw the first appearance of her book "aus der tiefe rufe ich", described as a novel but in many respects undisguisedly driven by her own experiences, and a work that has received greater attention, more than two decades following the author's death, since the appearance in 2004 of a new edition edited by monika melchert. the book deals with the lives of jewish people in berlin between 1938 and 1943, swinging between resignation and hope along the route to annihilation. in the post-war years jung obtained a job as a literary, cultural and popular education editor with berliner rundfunk, a radio station established in 1946 and, during its early years, controlled by the soviet administrators who had taken control of the entire central portion of germany at the end of the war. by 1952 the soviet occupation zone had been replaced by the soviet sponsored german democratic republic, established formally in october 1949. in 1952, by now aged 60, jung took a job as party secretary and teacher at the in berlin.