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97 .359 for Freud and of AS 138.000 for Anna Freud. Appendix D
contains the following statement: "The taxpayer owns a collection of
Egyptian and Roman antiques which were evaluated at AS 20.000 to
30.000. To be on the safe side it is being evaluated on May 21, 1938
by an expert. Should this collection, against our expectations, be
subject to
Reichsfluchtsteuer
I will notify the authorities." (Freud com–
ments on it in his "short chronicle" that the evaluation seemed to
have been successful, and was rather low.)
In 1962 it was discovered that on April 11, 1939 RM 35.300
were paid to the German
Golddiskontbank;
and on January 30, 1939
RM
4.963. Dr. Indra explains in 1962 that his files contain no
reference to
Abgaben
to the
Golddiskontbank.
Yet he notes:
Prof. Sigmund Freud was most interested that his complete col–
lection of antiques be exported to England. With the influence of
the Princess Georg of Greece he received permission.. . . The
collection was transferred to England. In contrast, the valuable
and in part irreplaceable works which belonged to the library of
the psychoanalytic publishing house were not released, because
they were not part of Prof. Freud's private belongings. Over
time these disappeared; some the Princess of Greece deposited in
the Greek embassy. Furthermore, the
Reichsbehorden,
including
the secret police, then were eager to 'treat decently' an interna–
tional figure like Prof. Freud.... He did publish an essay on
the question of Moses as an Egyptian, part of which Prof. Freud
read to my wife and me while waiting to receive his permit to
leave .
(Other correspondence corroborates that the Nazis took Freud's in–
ternational reputation into consideration and dealt with him "softly.")
Freud's brother Alexander, with the help of the NS lawyer
Erich Fuhrer, received permission to emigrate. On May 10, 1938
Alexander Freud turned over his holdings of
RM
172 .024 to be
managed by Fuhrer "as guarantee of my orderly
(ordnungsgemiiss)
return to Vienna." The business, which had a large reputation, dealt
with the printing of tariffs and regulations by organs of transport,
the revision of customs documents, information about matters con–
cerning transportation, and an office for transport-related com–
plaints. After many negotiations which brought Fuhrer even to Lon–
don (he stayed at the Ritz) the firm was sold for a lifetime annuity of
1,500 Swiss francs. These monies, however, were put into a closed
