Posted on 06/05/2008 5:38:51 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
He carried with him manuscripts and books comprising his life work, indicating that he did not plan to return. He had been reported planning to leave ever since Germany absorbed Austria March 13.
Fearful of difficulties in getting across the frontier out of Germany, Dr. Freud asked newspaper men not to publish details of his departure until he had had time to get out of the country. His daughter Anna accompanied him, wheeling him to the train compartment in an armchair. Only a few women friends saw them off.
Vienna’s official Nazi organ, the Voelkischer Beobachter, in reporting Dr. Freud’s departure did not mention his name but referred to the Freudian psychoanalytic school as a “pornographic Jewish specialty.”
“The Vienna psychoanalytic school,” the newspaper said “was actually a center against the Reich during the previous regime.”
The newspaper charged that Jewish physicians in Vienna had boycotted German medicaments before the annexation “even when there was no substitute for them.”
LONDON, June 4 (AP). – Dr. Sigmund Freud is coming to London from Nazified Vienna determined to complete his psychoanalysis of the Bible.
Friends said that he was virtually penniless and had “had a great shock” with Germany’s absorption of Austria March 13. Ever since, they said, he has remained in the seclusion of his Vienna home, “dreading insults if he emerged – because he is a Jew.”
In a rented house in London’s Chelsea district Dr. Freud intends to live with his daughter Anna and work on his partly completed biblical analysis. This, it was said, explains “the subconscious wishes and fears of the people” of biblical times. Chapters on Moses already are in proof form.
Dr. Freud left a Vienna that had been his home since childhood and that had ceremoniously honored him with its “Freedom.” Friends here doubted Vienna reports that he might go to New York, declaring he probably would remain in England because of his age.
Dr. Freud’s publishing house and “all his money” were confiscated, and, although he was permitted to keep his own library, all new books in his Vienna publishing office were destroyed, friends said.
He is due in Paris early tomorrow afternoon and will be met by his son Ernst, an architect, who left London today. They will come to London Wednesday or Thursday.
The official, Chen An-chen, was wounded in the neck and another Chinese was wounded in the shoulder by the same bullet. The gunman escaped.
The police quieted the audience that packed the Lyceum for a charity performance sponsored by the Chinese Woman’s Club for War Refugees.
I wonder if he finally got that project done.
This is the last regular news article for today. There is a short article about China/Japan at the end. Now I will post some stuff from the Sunday supplements.
While it's not certain if Freud and Lewis ever met in real life during Freud's years in England (there's considerable doubt that they did, but some historians suggest they may have had a private meeting or two based on some ambiguous journal entries), the author examines the oeuvres of both men and pits their words and philosophies against one another. I understand it was also a PBS series, but I've not seen that...just read the book.
That book is new to me. I think I will invest in a copy.
Fearful of difficulties in getting across the frontier out of Germany, Dr. Freud asked newspaper men not to publish details of his departure until he had had time to get out of the country."
If I remember, by 1938 the majority of Germany Jews had already fled Germany, though some didn't go far enough to escape capture during the war.
Austrian Jews had just over a year to escape, and most didn't make it in time. And very few of those who didn't escape survived the war.
It's curious to me that these news reports focus on well known Jews like Freud, while ignoring the hundreds of thousands of others who lacked Freud's wealth and international supporters.
Then as now, and as it ever has been, its a different world for people with juice than for people without it.
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