Freud's War by Helen Fry

By Helen Fry

In a really human portrayal of Sigmund Freud and his relations, the biography sheds gentle on a bit written point of Freud’s lifestyles – Freud the guy.

Despite his world wide recognition because the father of contemporary psychology, Sigmund’s safety in his local Vienna replaced in a single day while Hitler’s forces annexed Austria in March 1938.

That day he famously scrawled throughout his diary the phrases, Finae Austriae (Austria is finished). His books had already been burned throughout Germany 5 years prior, yet now he himself used to be in own probability from the Nazis. the consequent weeks when English and American pals attempted to get him out, have been highly stressful and reveal that it used to be no longer a foregone end that he will be unfastened.
Twice, Freud suffered raids by means of the Gestapo and his loved daughter Anna arrested. Fearing she should be taken to a focus camp, Freud learned that he may perhaps now not be in denial approximately his scenario and agreed to escape the rustic of his delivery. Tragically, his 4 sisters, all of their eighties, didn't break out and perished in focus camps.

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