 Three days later, on 27 August 1943, Selz died in the vicinity of Auschwitz.Aside from two pupils, Julius Bahle (a psychologist who applied Selz's psychology of productive thinking to the psychology of musical composition) and Adriaan de Groot, Selz never founded a school and after 1933 his name disappears almost completely from the German psychological literature.Until recently, his works were largely untranslated from German into English.