Just after the death of Ellen Amman in November 1932 Godin published her biography. The Nazis immediately put it on the index of censored books, as Ammann had helped defeat Hitler's coup in 1923. In addition to Godin's friendship with Ellen Ammann, the Nazis also monitored her because she was the great-granddaughter of a Jew, Aron Elias Seligmann, and her cousin Michael von Godin, a chief publisher had also played a major role in the obstruction of Hitler's coup. When Michael von Godin was released from protective custody in the Dachau concentration camp he fled to Switzerland. Marie Amelie Godin denied her Jewish ancestry but as a committed Catholic she helped Jewish friends. During her probably last trip to Albania in 1939, she accompanied a Jewish woman to safety into that country. According to the Nuremberg Laws, as a Jewish "half-breed, Grade II", she required a special permit to become a member of the Reich Chamber of Authors and to continue to be active as a writer. During those years she published only harmless novels of the home country pastoral novels which were well received by the public. However, Marie Amelie was banned from publishing on Albanian themes: the suspicion was that she supported Albanian resistance fighters and thus she was strictly monitored.