Between 1936 and 1939 Rubiner served as a press department chief in the Soviet Literature Agency, responsible for providing the "bourgeois foreign press" with material on the Soviet Union. From 1939 till 1941 she returned to work as a contributing editor, this time with the Moscow-based Publisher for Foreign Language Literature, as "German editor, Category 1 for Marxist Classics (Lenin/Stalin)", as she later identified the role. From a Soviet perspective, the Great Patriotic War (Second World War) between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany began only in June 1941. Between 1941 and 1945 Frida Rubiner worked in the political central administration of the Red Army as head of a re-education programme ("Umschulungsprogramm") for German prisoners of war. She was also involved in the Soviet sponsored &lt;a href="National%20Committee%20for%20a%20Free%20Germany"&gt;National Committee for a Free Germany ("Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland" / NKVD )&lt;/a&gt;, focusing on radio propaganda broadcasting.