Between 1942 and 1944 Tami Oelfken regularly moved her base in order to avoid being spied upon. Along with her diaries, she was able to write for foreign German language newspapers, using pseudonyms. There are indications that by the middle of 1944 she was living in a form of internal exile at Überlingen (Bodensee) in the extreme south of Germany. She was still there when war ended in May 1945, and she indeed lived at Überlingen throughout 1945.