Growth of the Problem 1938–1945

Abstract

The Nazi rape of Austria in 1938 brought about the displacement of over 400 Austrian University teachers. Half of them were from the famous medical schools of Vienna and Graz; many of the other half were eminent in Chemistry, Law, Music and the History of Art. England was again the principal first haven, and 70 were placed in British Institutions, through the efforts of the Society for Protection of Science and Learning. There was the opportunity of concentrating in Britain groups from the medical schools. But the British medical profession was anxious over the consequence of such a bold step, and opposed it. The opportunity was lost, and the schools as such were disintegrated. Individuals found their place in England and America and many other countries, and salvation by single instances was the principle everywhere. Professor S. Freud, the creator of the science of Psycho-analysis, found asylum in England, and died there in 1939.