“In 1938, after much harassment by the Gestapo, Sigmund Freud was permitted to leave Austria on the condition that he sign a document stating that he’d been treated with all the respect and consideration due to my scientific reputation, that I could live and work in full freedom.
This was, of course, completely untrue. But, as a Jew who’d been named an enemy of the Reich, his books specifically targeted for burning when the Nazis came to power in Germany five years earlier, Freud had little choice but to sign. He could not, however, resist adding a postscript: I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone.” (c) elephantjournal.com, 2011
Archive for 1938
Story of a Kindertransport survivor
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Germany, Greta-Britain, Judy Benton, Kindertransport, London on 9 December 2013 by delclem
“I escaped Hitler’s Germany and built a new life. As one of the Kindertransport refugees, I arrived in London knowing no one: 75 years later I’m blessed with my own family.” memoir (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Anniversary of Viennese anti-Semitism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, anti-Semitism, Austria, commemoration, Germany, National Socialism, November Pogrom, Vienna on 9 November 2013 by delclem
A commemoration for the co-called “Night of Broken Glass”, the Nazi Pogroms
on 9 November 1938. >text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Incisive Anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Anschluss, Austria, cultural memory, Germany, Hitler, memory politics, National Socialism on 13 March 2013 by delclem
Austria commemorates again its – less forced than desired – “Anschluss” to Nazi Germany. Continue reading
Austrian Anschluss, 1938 – 2013
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Anschluss, Austria, Germany, history, National Socialism on 11 March 2013 by delclem
“Germany’s Annexation Of Austria 75 Years Ago Remembered As ‘Darkest Time’.” >full text (c) HUFFINGTON POST, 2013
delirium clemens 