He fled from Estonia in 1941 in fear of Soviet terror, and spent the following eight years in Germany (living in Werneck, Berlin, and Gleiwitz in Eastern Germany), where he continued to work as an architect.
Der Fall Gleiwitz, direction: Gerhard Klein (1961), DEFA studios (The Gleiwitz Case; English subtitles), is an East German film that reconstructs the events.
Gottfried Bermann, later Gottfried Bermann Fischer (July 31, 1897, Gleiwitz, Silesia – September 17, 1995, Camaiore), was a German publisher.