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the debts of the Association - by turning his
Wertpapiere
and
moneys over to the commissar. Since the debts which amounted
to
AS
110.000 were not covered, the Princess Maria von Griech–
enland and Denmark, represented by the same lawyer, guaranteed
the difference with her Austrian capital.
14,000 Dutch Gulden were not included in this agreement,
which will be used if necessary, but at the moment it is thought,
with the agreement of the
Devisenstellung,
that the Freud family
may keep it outside Austria.
In view of the fact that the
Reichspolizei
and other authorities
already dispose over Professor Freud's inland moneys, we re–
quest that the
Reichsfluchtsteuer
be cancelled.
The request was denied . On June 4, 1938 RM 31.329 were to
be paid for
Reichsfluchtsteuer.
The International Psychoanalytische
Verlag had been in financial trouble since 1931. After Hitler's
takeover its situation was untenable since the publishing house
depended upon German book sales. In March 1936 the 7,679 books
of the German distributor had been confiscated, though returned in
July. But the distributor no longer wanted to take this risk . There–
fore , in 1937 Martin Freud considered that they cease printing not
only psychoanalytic works but others as well: without German sales
the publishing house had no future .
This question was settled on March 16, 1938 with the takeover
by Commissar Sauerwald. In March 1938-illegally-thousands of
such commissars were appointed , anticipating the intent expressed
in Berlin at the beginning of 1938, to "systematically de-Judaize the
economy ." According to the "Referat
III
Jd" in the Reichsministry
for the Economy , "Jews were to give up whatever in their function as
commerce- and money-parasites they had taken from the German
people."
The law ordering all Jews to register their assets (by June 30,
1938 and extended to July 31, 1938) was passed only on April 26,
1938. The up to then "exemplary" taking of Jewish assets in Austria
and the control of nearly all Jewish enterprises through commissars
had strong repercussions in the "Old Reich ." For five years the
bureaucrats in the "Old Reich" had been hesitant to take such steps
without legal bases-which in Vienna took only a few months. Not
without pride, the first issue of "The German Civil Servant , Organ
of the Regional Direction of the National Socialist Civil Servants of
Austria," stated: "Thanks to the existence of the Illegal NS-bureau-
