While he was there he protested and gave Lectures on communism. He talked about having bettered housing, sex education with large groups, nurseries, sex-counseling, and massive factories and businesses. He believed so much in communism that he wanted to send his two daughters to a communist children center. Annie becomes extremely upset with his ideas, from this point on, the two drifted apart. In 1933 the Nazis took over, gathering thousands of people, some of his close friends are captured.
Nazis make a public display of burning books, which they reject.
Reich finds that his books were in the blaze, and that the Gestapo was ready to kill him on sight. He flees to Vienna and disguises himself as a skier. Amongst this confusion Annie and Reich divorce. In 1934, he and Elsa moved to Oslo, Norway to accept an invitation to join the staff at the institute of psychology at the University of Oslo. Reich's children stay with Annie.