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washing these psychoanalysts. Nevertheless, his remmlscences re–
mind us, once more, how easy it is for well-meaning people preoc–
cupied with their daily tasks to ignore the evil that surrounds them .
Had Cocks not opened Pandora's box , Brautigam probably would
not have come forth.
By far the most startling discovery , however, was made recently
by Johannes Grunert. When he looked into the archives of the
Munich branch of the Reichsinstitut, he found documents illuminat–
ing the demise of the Goring Institut, which indicate that the Ger–
man psychotherapists indeed suffered from collective amnesia. For,
in February 1945, the Berlin members, in the wake of American and
Soviet advances, had entrusted Dr. Felix Scherke to move their
monies and records to Munich . Grunert discovered evidence , sup–
porting Cocks , that the Branch Bayern, just like the other R eichs–
institutes (in Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Wupperthal and Vienna) , were
instructed to cure neurotics and those difficult to educate, to train
psychotherapists, to do research on productivity, and to provide
seminars and lectures on mental health for doctors, educators,
nursery school teachers, social workers and others. And he found
correspondence referring to 100.000 Reichsmark that had been
transferred from Berlin to Munich. Though presenting a more or
less united front to the outside , the psychotherapists went so far as to
hire lawyers , in 1946 (six months after the Americans had formally
approved them), in order to decide to whom the money belonged. In
fact , the Munich lawyer stated that there was "no doubt that this in–
stitute [in Munich] is the practical and formal continuation of the
Reichsinstitut. The latter never ceased to exist."
As we know, there were almost no Freudians in the Munich
group. So, the Berliners represented German psychoanalysts in 1949
at the first meeting of the International Psychoanalytic Association
after the war. Therefore, the theoretical differences were between
Harald Schultz-Hencke and Carl Mueller-Braunschweig. Ironically,
the IPA admitted this group only provisionally, because the co–
operation with other therapists had muddied their Freudian creden–
tials . As Anna Freud then stated :
"It
is not easy to say how many of
the thirty-seven members of the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesell–
schaft are psychoanalysts in the accepted sense ." Subsequently,
Mueller-Braunschweig managed to set up the Deutsche Psycho–
analytische Verein (it was accepted in 1951) , while Schultz-Hencke's
Neo-Analyse continued to dominate the DPG. In retrospect, it is
amazing that none of the insiders publicly discussed the Nazi period ,
