It would seem a fairly safe and commonsense assumption to believe that psychoanalysis as outlined by Freud was neither practiced nor preserved during the Third Reich. The period in German history from 1933-1945 could hardly be considered compatible with the type of free thinking and self-exploration required for psychoanalysis to exist, let alone to flourish. According to this book, however, even during the height of World War II, life in Germany included psychotherapy and a form of “cleansed” psychoanalysis designed to eliminate all aspects of its Freudian (i.e., Jewish) origins.