After 1942 the likely outcome of the war became easier to predict, and over the next couple of years German defeat appeared ever more clearly on the horizon. In 1944 Eleonore became secretary to Anton Ackermann, a leading member of the (all-male) group of 30 trusted comrades working away in Moscow on the preparation a formidably detailed nation building programme, to be implemented in Germany once the National Socialist tyranny had been destroyed. (In the event it would be implemented only in the central third of Germany, administered from May 1945 as the Soviet occupation zone.) Later she also took an appointment as Youth Editor with the recently launched Moscow based broadcaster, .