SOURCE: "A Conversation with Viktor Frankl of Vienna," in Psychology Today, Vol. 1, No. 9, February, 1968, pp. 57-63.

In the following interview, Frankl discusses his concentration camp experiences and his views on existentialism and modern psychotherapy.

[Hall]: You were already a psychiatrist in Vienna when Hitler marched into Austria. How did that affect you immediately?

[Frankl]: After Hitler came, I stayed in Vienna. My sister immigrated to Australia and my brother tried to get shelter in Italy. He was captured by the SS and taken with his wife to Auschwitz. I had been assigned to run the Neurological Department of the Jewish Hospital, so I was not only allowed to stay in Vienna myself, but even could keep my old parents with me. My father at that time was a bit more than eighty years old.

Was there any opportunity for you to leave the country?

I tried to get...