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a flophouse «Hlca wad known to be inhabited by men who lent ttejaaelrea to hottOflenuil practices, and i t was probably for this reason that he wag listed on thfl Vienna police record JIH a "sexual pervert*" Nobody has ever offered an explanation of why he remained in Vienna for over five j-ears if hia life there was as difltasteful and the city disgusted din to the degree that lie claiaa in hie autobiography. He was free to leave whenever he wished1 and could have gone to his beloved Germany ywarfl earlier if he had so desired* The fact of the matter i s that h& probably derived great aasochlstic satisfaction from hie miserable l i f e in Vienna> afld i t nflfl not until his pervaraion beg am* full-blown and he realized, its implications that he to Uudioh at the beginning of 1915 • Vith the d«v«lopiDdnt of hia perverse tendedciep va find the daTQlopment of hie anti-Semitism. There i e no evidence that he bad any *nti-$ataltlc feelings before Iw left Lit)* or that he had any during th» if ire t y*arfl of his fltay In Vienna* On the contrary, he waff on the very boat terns with Dr. filocb while he was In Lin* and sent his postcards with vory warn aentljientfl for &on& tl«9 after he went to Tlfldtin* Purthernore, hio filoeeat friends in Vienna ware Jewpj aoite of wtflM were extrenelx Iti^d to hi»* Then, too, we auflt r&naniber that his godfather, who lived in Vienna, • REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES