however, in 1936 her publications became forbidden by the third reich because her husband was jewish. as viebig was related to hermann göring she herself was not persecuted. she moved in 1937 to brazil for a year, but returned a year later and tried to accommodate herself in nazi germany. her work continued to be published, albeit with less regularity; eventually, on her 80th birthday in 1940, she was celebrated by the press and nazis for her work, with "das schlafende heer" being praised by nazi critics as the first "volksdeutsche novel" and important document of "national fight". while her works differ from racist "blut und boden" literature and her correspondence shows a distance from nazism, they are filled with nationalist spirit and show some similarities to volkisch thinking.