After receiving her medical degree, Dr. Margarete von Zahn-Harnack opens a clinic in Berlin where she goes on to treat patients for over thirty years. During this time she will speak of her former professor in glowing terms, believing that he had “put his life in danger” by saving Mildred from dissection. Margarete won’t know until the late 1980s that Dr. Hermann Stieve lied to her. He didn’t save anyone from dissection.