The fate of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute under Hitler's dictatorship was closely related to that of the German Psychoanalytical Society. Dräger describes the initial attempts to save what could be saved, the dissolution of both the institute and the publishing firm (in 1936) and the incorporation of the remaining analysts in the officially tolerated Deutsches Institut für psychologische Forschung und Psychotherapie. Examples of psychoanalytic writings of that time (by Rittmeister, Kemper and Boehm) show that psychoanalytic thinking had to be camouflaged in a kind of 'slave language' if authors were to communicate their ideas, since Freud's name and scientific language were prohibited. A final section deals with the development of psychoanalysis after 1945 in Berlin and West Germany.