The Escape of Sigmund Freud

The “gripping” true story of the founder of psychoanalysis—and how he made it out of Austria after the Nazi takeover ( The Independent ). Sigmund Freud was not a practicing Jew, but that made no difference to the Nazis as they burned his books in the early 1930s. Goebbels and Himmler wanted all psychoanalysts, especially Freud, dead, and after the annexation of Austria, it became clear that Freud needed to leave Vienna. But a Nazi raid on his house put the Freuds’ escape at risk. With never-befo