Back to the front page
People

35 Things Most People Don’t Know About Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams
Advertisement

5. Freud Had To Flee The Nazis

Freud was an Austrian Jew. Hulton Archive/ Getty Images/ Independent.co.uk.

Austria in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be Jewish, even if, like Freud, one was not a practicing Jew. In 1938, he fled Austria for the United Kingdom. Much of his family had already fled by this time, and he was unable to leave because of significant legal challenges and extortion because he was a Jew in a Nazi-occupied land.

Written by
Advertisement

Keep reading