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p33k4y t1_j1rfrwh wrote

More to this story.

Anna Freud was Secretary to the International Psychoanalytical Association -- a professional association for psychoanalysts that's still operating today.

The Gestapo interrogated her for 12-hours about this association, because they believed psychoanalysis was part of a Jewish conspiracy.

They didn't know that Anna was ready to commit suicide using Barbital had the Gestapo tortured or imprisoned her, rather than compromising others. Anna and her brother Martin had secretly obtained the Barbital from their family physician, Dr. Max Schur.

Sigmund Freud, fearing the worst, broke down after Anna was released. He went to the British consulate and requested passage for 16 members of his family and close friends -- including Dr. Schur.

They were all able to escape to London in 1938, but the story doesn't end there.

Sigmund Freud was suffering from cancer and within months of escaping the Nazis, his condition deteriorated sharply.

In severe pain with no hope for recovery, he went to Dr. Schur to end it all. With Anna's consent, Max Shur administered high doses of morphine. Sigmund Freud passed away a short time later, in September 1939, from the euthanasia.

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