Walter Freud Collection

This fonds mostly consists of papers relating to Walter Freud's father, (Jean) Martin Freud and his work in publishing and later as a novelist and writer.

Walter Freud was the son of Martin Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud. Born in Vienna he fled the nazis in 1938 with his father, as did Sigmund and Anna Freud and many others of the Freud family. Walter Freud and his father were interned in England as an enemy alien in 1940 and deported to Australia later that year. Returning to England in 1941, he joined first the Royal Pioneer Corps and later the Special Operations Executive. After the war Freud investigated the nazi's war crimes in the War Crimes Investigation Unit. He married Annette Krarup in 1946 and gained a degree in Chemical engineering the next year. Freud worked in what would become BP Chemicals until his retirement in 1977, and died in 2004.