Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, fled Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee. Due to rising anti-Semitism in Austria and Freud's prominent status as the head of the psychoanalytic foundation, he and his family faced constant harassment and abuse from the Gestapo. With help from one of his followers, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Freud and his family were able to escape Austria on the Orient Express and settle in London for the remainder of World War II. All of Freud's siblings ultimately died in concentration camps, demonstrating the grave danger he would have faced had he remained in Vienna under Nazi rule.

1. A
fugitive story

2. Sigmund Freud the famousAustrian neurologist, known as the
father of psychoanalysiswas indeed a fugitive of Nazi Germany.
Freud was born from a Jewish family from Moravia, at that time
part of the Austrian Empire, nowadays part of Czech Republic.
He lived in an Austria where the anti-Semitic feeling of the
society was growing rapidly. At the 30’s the Nazis had an explicit
anti-Semitic programme.He was recognized as a brilliant figure;
he was able to speak eight languages and was a respectful doctor
and a reputed pioneer.
Despite all this as a Jew and as the president
of the psychoanalyst foundation he was
considered an enemy of the Third Reich. His
books were burned publicly. He said:
"What progress we are making. In
the Middle Ages they would have burned

3. me. Now, they are contentwith burning my books."
The family suffered a constantabuse of the Gestapo.There were
raids in his publishing house, also in his own house. His sons
were arrested for days in several occasions.
After all the family decided to leave Vienna. Thankfully to one of
the most prominentfollowers of Freud, Princess Marie Bonaparte.
They were able to flee the country via the Orient Express.
Afterwards they settled in London. When the war was over he
realized the real danger of staying in Vienna, owing to all his
siblings died in concentrationcamps.
“There are two ways
to be happy in this
life: one is play the
fool and the other be”
David Garcia Castro TY2