Pilates was developed in an internment camp and the first studio was a guy who was like fleeing the Nazis. This feels very like as seen on TV. Are you tired of doing sit up the normal way? Get the one to chair. Yeah, absolutely. So ultimately what leads him to leave Germany is a job offer because he had trained with police in Britain and with Scotland Yard. He was asked to train the German military police, but that was part of an attempt to begin to rebuild the nation's military. His experience at knockalow left him staunchly anti war. And in an extremely prescient move, he immigrated to the US in April of 1926.