Post-war Life
After the fall of the Third Reich, in the summer of 1945, she was briefly detained in a Soviet prisoner of war camp, but escaped shortly after and went into hiding in Bebenhausen Castle near Tübingen. She and her third husband spent the subsequent three years under the aliases of Heinrich and Maria Stuckebrock.
On 28 February 1948, the couple was identified and arrested. A French military court sentenced Scholtz-Klink to 18 months in prison on the charge of forging documents. In May 1950, a review of her sentence classified her as the "main culprit" and sentenced her to additional 30 months. In addition, the court imposed a fine and banned her from political and trade union activity, journalism, and teaching for ten years.
After her release from prison in 1953, Sholtz-Klink settled back in Bebenhausen.
In her 1978 book Die Frau im Dritten Reich ("The Woman in the Third Reich"), Scholtz-Klink demonstrated her continuing support for the National Socialist ideology. She once again upheld her position on National Socialism in her interview with historian Claudia Koonz in the early 1980s.
She died on 24 March 1999 in Bebenhausen, Germany.
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