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Saving Freud

A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

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Saving Freud

By: Andrew Nagorski
Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
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A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible.

In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria and Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich. Anticipating these events, many Jews had fled Austria, but the most famous Austrian Jew remained in Vienna, where he had lived since early childhood. Sigmund Freud was 81 years old, ill with cancer, and still unconvinced that his life was in danger.

But several prominent people close to Freud thought otherwise, and they began a coordinated effort to persuade Freud to leave his beloved Vienna and emigrate to England. The group included a Welsh physician, Napoleon’s great-grandniece, an American ambassador, Freud’s devoted youngest daughter Anna, and his personal doctor.

Saving Freud is the story of how this remarkable collection of people finally succeeded in coaxing Freud, a man who seemingly knew the human mind better than anyone else, to emerge from his deep state of denial about the looming catastrophe, allowing them to extricate him and his family from Austria so that they could settle in London. There Freud would live out the remaining 16 months of his life in freedom.

This book is both an incisive new biography of Freud and a group biography of the extraordinary friends who saved Freud’s life.©2022 Andrew Nagorski (P)2022 Simon & Schuster Audio 20th Century Historical Modern Professionals & Academics Social Scientists & Psychologists England
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This is an excellent account of Frued's life. However there is a missing chapter, otherwise the title makes no sense. We go from persuading Frued of the necessity of leaving Vienna to his arrival in Paris without any explanation of the mechanics of how he was got out. This renders this audio book deeply flawed.

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