After her release, on 7 September 1936, Gertrud Schlotterbeck returned to living with her parents, now at . During 1938 she married Walter Lutz, a forestry inspector, and relocated to . She worked till March 1939 as a typist. Though at liberty, Gertrud Lutz (as she had become) now lived her life under close official surveillance. War returned in September 1939 and she was arrested "as a precautionary measure", but released quite soon. Then at the start of 1942 Walter Lutz (who had been born in 1906) was conscripted into the army and sent off to fight on the Russian Front. The couple's daughter, Wilfriede Sonnhilde Lutz, was born on 2 August 1942. Naming a child "Wilfriede" at the height of a war being waged for glory of the Fatherland was a conscious piece of defiance by the child's mother: is the German word for "Peace". Walter Lutz never saw his daughter. He was killed in the fighting in Russia on 2 October 1942.