Meanwhile, back in Germany her 1932 "Durch Himmel und Hölle" ("Through Heaven and Hell") was included on an updated version of the government's "List of damaging and undesirable literature" in 1937 on account of its allegedly pornographic content. In January 1939 von Urbanitzky was expelled from the , membership of which was normally needed in order to pursue a career as a published author in Hitler's Germany. It was nevertheless only in 1941 that her work was subject to a blanket ban in Germany, by means of inclusion on a newly extended government "List of damaging and undesirable literature". The immediate trigger for the ban was almost certainly her 1941 novel "Miliza", in which the German authorities had detected "pacifist tendencies" when it had been published (in Switzerland). By this time her Vienna-based publisher, Zsolnay Verlag, had advised her, in 1940, that he no longer wished to publish her books in what had been, since 1938, part of Germany.