 However, in 1942 he was transferred to the concentration camp at , a short distance to the north of Berlin, and where he would remain till April/May 1945.As the Soviet army approached and national defeat loomed, plans were implemented to start emptying the Sachsenhausen concentration camp of its surviving internees, and in April 1945 Arthur Franke was one of a group of prisoners who set off on a Death march, during the course of which he managed to escape from his guards.With the end of the war in May 1945 membership of the KPD was no longer illegal and Arthur Franke was (again) a member.