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Freud's Late Escape From Nazis
- Freud initially underestimated the Nazi threat and refused to flee Vienna until his daughter Anna was taken by the Gestapo.
- This personal crisis finally persuaded him to escape to England in 1938, saving his life.
Nazi Persecution of Freud
- Nazis targeted Freud mainly because he was Jewish, not for his scientific work.
- His international fame won him special protections unlike many Jewish psychoanalysts who had to flee or perished.
Freud's Famous Couch Preserved
- Freud's original psychoanalytic couch, gifted by a patient in 1891, is preserved at the Freud Museum in London.
- Patients lay on this couch for sessions, a practice that pioneered modern talk therapy.