 He also spent a large amount of time during the Nazi period in a Correction Centre in Zwickau.The war ended in May 1945 and with it the Nazi regime.Scheibe at once joined the Communist Party (KPD), which the next year, following a forced merger of political parties, would leave him as a member of the country's ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED/ "Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands").