On leaving school Löwy progressed to the Jewish community's "Academy for Applied Graphic Arts" ("Schule für Gebrauchsgraphik und Dekoration").

The doctor responsible for authorising her admission to the necessary Hakhshara programme rejected her application because "only healthy young people" could be allowed to emigrate to Palestine.

True to her Zionist commitments and pacifist beliefs, Löwy was not a communist, but in the words of one source she nevertheless accepted that a victory for Communism "would provide a better opportunity for Jews to obtain equal rights".

[2] In the context of later development, the people who were socially involved with Herbert Baum, found themselves identified by the Gestapo as a coherent anti-government group.

There is, however, mention of involvement with sticking posters to walls and distributing leaflets that not merely opposed the Nazi government but also called for an end to the war.

The arson attack itself took place on 18 May 1942[1] and reportedly did little damage to the exhibition, but after some months it had been used to justify to the arrest of a relatively large number individuals, identified as members of the "Baum-Group".

They had moved in together shortly after meeting, but for reasons which invite several possible interpretations Löwy had never told her lover about her involvement with the people who organised the arson attack.

Anticipating that she would be condemned to death, on 2 December 1942 she made a desperate escape attempt, knotting sheets together and attaching one end to a window from which she had removed the glass.

Hildegard Löwy's trial took place on 10 December 1942 before the "second senate" of the special "People's Court" which Chancellor Hitler had set up back in 1934 in order for the government to be able to deal with "political offences" without recourse to the traditional justice system.