Melitta maintained contact with the incarcerated members of her extended family even though they were imprisoned in concentration camps. Her status and the possibility that the prisoners might be useful in a bargain with the Western Allies when Germany finally fell kept them moderately well looked after. She flew several times to Buchenwald concentration camp once she found in March 1945 that her husband was there. The research facilities were dispersed from Berlin ahead of the Soviet advance, Melitta's activities to Wurzberg where she found that an RAF raid had destroyed her house and its contents.