 While working in these archives in 1995 she discovered a large amount of material dealing with conflicts between members of the Berlin Mission and National Socialists.This material provided the basis for a new project concerning the role of religions in the rise of National Socialism which took almost ten years to complete and resulted in her latest book, "New Religions and the Nazis" (2006).Currently Poewe is studying the treatment of German refugees following the end of World War II and is interested in the impact of defeat on the defeated.