My Years with Ludwig von Mises.pdf - The Ludwig von Mises Institute

often beaten to death. Schuschnigg himself was put into prison
and later sent to a concentration camp, where he was lucky enough
to meet his future wife. He never went to trial. Years later, when he
came to New York, he came to see us several times. He taught for
twenty years at American colleges, and now lives in Innsbruck,
Austria.
During all this turmoil I had been in constant communication
with Lu, who urged me to leave as quickly as possible. That was
not so simple as we would have liked it to be. Everyone who
wanted to cross the border needed permission from the government.
Austria was always a bureaucratic country, but nowthe difficulties
placed inthe way of a would-be traveller were unimaginable.
Luckily, I managed to get all the necessary documents. When,
on March 26, Gitta and I came to the Vienna Westbahnhof and
took our seats in the express train for Zurich, I felt relieved as
never before. (Guido, my son, had been in an English boarding
school for a year. Always somewhat adventurous, he later went to
Caracas, Venezuela, married, and settled there.)
But the excitement was not over. Police officers, Gestapo agents,
S.S. men, one after the other, came into the compartment of our
railway coach to inspect our passports and examine our documents.
Only when the train moved out of the station and gathered
speed could I breathe easy. We were free!
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