The Seventh Cross
While still in Paris, in 1939, she had written "The Seventh Cross". The novel is set in 1936 and describes the escape of seven prisoners from a concentration camp. It was published in English in the United States in 1942 and quickly adapted for an American movie of the same name. This was released in 1944 by MGM and starred Spencer Tracy. "The Seventh Cross" was one of the very few depictions of Nazi concentration camps, in either literature or the cinema, during World War II. In 1947 Seghers was awarded the Georg Büchner-Prize for this novel.