sentences:  Following the "Anschluss" in March 1938, Eisler wrote to Oxford asking about being appointed to the Wilde Readership in Comparative and Natural Religion, thereby gaining a way out of Nazi-controlled Europe.Gilbert Murray stepped in and secured him the Oxford post, which he was to have taken in October and held for three years.But on May 20, Eisler was arrested and sent to Dachau under “protective custody” as prisoner 16547.