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Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss

On 4 June 1938 Freud left Vienna for London after the Anschluss. He did not vote the annexation and did not author the 1933 burnings. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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On 4 June 1938 Freud left Vienna for London after the Anschluss. The instrument is that forced exit. He did not vote the annexation and did not author the 1933 burnings. Sigmund Freud's documented role is: He was forced out as a Jewish physician under the Reich. Marie Bonaparte, the American embassy file, and unnamed clerks share the exit. He did not author the Anschluss.

Context

Marie Bonaparte and other named helpers share the paperwork. Sharing that help is required. London practice is a neighbouring later door, not this train. The setting of Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss is the public file around 1938-06-04. Driver forced-displacement-scale is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss. Naming Sigmund Freud does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1938-06-04 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

Worsening path from Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss on 1938-06-04. Forced exile after annexation is a displacement path of high confidence on the date. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Sigmund Freud

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.44 · verified

    He was forced out as a Jewish physician under the Reich. Marie Bonaparte, the American embassy file, and unnamed clerks share the exit. He did not author the Anschluss.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Freud Museum London — Freud biography and early clinical booksFreud Museum London · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Sigmund Freud, Charcot and ParisEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Freud Museum London — Freud's arrival and Maresfield Gardens at https://www.freud.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab) (Freud Museum London). Independent locator: Britannica — Sigmund Freud, emigration 1938 at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Freud Museum London — Freud's arrival and Maresfield Gardens (https://www.freud.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab); Freud Museum London). Independent carrier: Britannica — Sigmund Freud, emigration 1938 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a sourced public record of Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss under 1938-06-04 for Sigmund Freud. Established: a sourced public record of Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss under 1938-06-04.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Burnings were others' acts; exile is the dated personal displacement. Mixed effects of Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSigmund Freud
  2. contributed toFactFreud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss
  3. strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Freud leaves Vienna for London on 4 June 1938 after the Anschluss. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/fr-exile-1938

https://factrail.ai/facts/fr-exile-1938

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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