Many of Fussenegger's other pieces, mostly during this period religiously contextualised novels, poems and reviews, found their way into important . Most (in)famously, her poem "Stimme der Ostmark" (""Voice of the Ostmark"") was printed in 1938 by the Völkischer Beobachter. The poem attracted huge criticism after 1945, because it celebrated the "peaceful annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany" and it eulogised Hitler. Around fifty years later Gertrud Fussenegger's comment on the affair was capable of various interpretations, but it fell short of an unambiguous recantation. She regretted having "wasted so much thinking time on something so loathsome" ("viele gute Gedanken verschwendet ... auf eine Sache, die dann ein Greuel war").