When the Nazis burned his books in 1933, Sigmund Freud remarked that in the Middle Ages they would have burned him.

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When the Nazis burned his books in 1933, Sigmund Freud remarked that in the Middle Ages they would have burned him?

Yes. A reference biography states that in January 1933 Freud's books were prominent among those the Nazis burned, and that Freud remarked to Ernest Jones that in the Middle Ages they would have burned him.

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Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

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