Braun and Benário parted ways in 1931. She went on to marry the famous Brazilian revolutionary leader Luís Carlos Prestes and went to live in his country. She was finally arrested by the Getúlio Vargas dictatorship and extradited to Germany, where she was eventually gassed to death at the Bernburg Euthanasia Centre. She is remembered as a martyr by the Brazilian and German Left. For his part, Otto Braun embarked on the most significantand in some ways, the most controversialpart of his revolutionary career, as the Comintern representative in China.