On March 15, 1938, three days after German troops crossed into Austria, Adolf Hitler appeared on the balcony of the Hofburg, Vienna’s imperial palace, to announce the Anschluss, the incorporation of the country of his birth into the Third Reich. An immediate target of the new Nazi overlords: Sigmund Freud. As a Jew, Vienna’s most famous denizen was automatically in danger; as the undisputed face of what most Nazi officials denounced as a Jewish pseudoscience, he was doubly so.
