Following the Nazi invasion of Austria – the Anschluss – in March, Ernest Jones and Princess Marie Bonaparte help Sigmund Freud and his family escape Vienna, with the support of the American ambassador in Paris, William C. Bullitt. On 6th June they arrive in London. Among the other European analysts who escape to London are Willi and Hedwig Hoffer, Dorothy Burlingham, and Erwin Stengel.