During the 1930s, while there were about 56 members of the German Psychoanalytic Society (Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft, DPG); only nine were German “Aryans.” Max Eitingon was chairman of the DPG and head of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute (BPI), which he founded in 1920 and financed with his own resources. On April 1, 1933, storm troopers plundered Jewish shops, and on April 7 a series of laws were enacted that aimed at forcing Jews out of professional fields in both state institutions and private practice. The very same day, Eitingon transferred full power to Felix Boehm (Secretary of the DPG) and Carl Müller-Braunschweig (Treasurer), both among the first psychoanalysts trained in Berlin and both non-Jews. In the event that the National Socialists “Aryanized”