What did Hitler think of Sigmund Freud?

May 6, 1856: Sigmund Freud is born. ... But Freud was no longer safe in Vienna after the Nazi occupation, since the Gestapo was not only targeting Jews in general but psychoanalysts in particular; their fixation on the id's uncivilized impulses .... Adolf Hitler greets the cheering throng at a rally in 1937. read more

Freud implores Klara to stop Alois mistreating the child, but in our play, as in life, she is no match for her brute of a husband, and Alois, embarrassed and humiliated, refuses to let Adolf see Freud again. In fact - and in our drama - after his parents died, Hitler did return to Vienna when he was a teenager to study art. read more