Freud, Sigmund
1856-1939, psychiatrist, professor of psychiatry in Vienna, founder of psychoanalysis, critic of religion. In 1938, Freud fled to London, where he committed suicide in 1939.
Fry, Varian
1907-1967, American literary and political scientist and journalist, between August 1940 and August 1941, representative of the Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseille
Gabo, Naum
(1890-1977), ) Constructivist Russian sculptor, painter, architect and designer, was a founding member of the Abstraction-Création art movement in Paris.
Garrigue Masaryk, Tomáš
1850–1937, Czech philosopher, writer and politician, first President of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935.
Gellhorn, Martha
(1908-1998), American journalist, author, and war correspondent
Georg Friedrich Alexan
(1901-1995), writer and journalist, who moved from Germany to Paris in 1931, was born Georg Kupfermann.
Georg Heintz
1928-1987, German exile researcher, editor and publisher in Worms
Géricault, Théodore
1791–1824, French painter. His masterpiece is considered to be the large-scale painting Das Floss der Medusa. This depicts the historic shipwreck of the frigate Medusa and caused a scandal upon being exhibited in 1819 at the Paris Salon by addressing such a politically sensitive topic.
German Freedom Library
Library of documents compiled jointly by communist writers and journalists in exile, in order to publish a Brown Book about the Reichstag fire and Hitler’s terror. The project – also referred to as the ‘Library of the Burned Books’ – aimed to put together extensive and detailed documentation.
Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums[Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service]
The purpose of the law from 7 April 1933 was to dismiss Jewish and politically unpopular civil servants from their posts or to make them retire against their will. The impact of the law went far beyond the civil service as it was applied to almost all professions.
