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After Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, Bauer was one of several WLWO staff members who took the night train to New York, joining the Voice of
America as a broadcaster on the opening day of its operation on Feb. 24, 1942.Âł Programming at WLWO was taken over in February, 1942 by the Office of
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by the Nazis in 1934, Bauer became convinced that the only way to fight the Nazis was within the framework of the "Vaterländische Front" (Patriotic Front), the only political organization allowed in
Austria at that time. Bauer joined its propaganda office as a volunteer and spoke at international
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on March 6, 1953, at a U.S. congressional hearing to successfully defend the VOA against accusations that its South
American radio program, “Eye of the Eagle,” was Communist. After Bauer's testimony, the VOA was left alone by the McCarthy Commission and Bauer was made head of the VOA European
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While in Prague, he met Maria von Kahler, (b. 1920) who worried that she and her assimilated Jewish parents, Felix and Lilli von Kahler, would be arrested by the Nazis. The von
Kahlers were a wealthy, German-speaking, Austro-Hungarian family who owned sugar beet factories in what was known as
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on March 12, 1938, Bauer boarded a train with one suitcase and left
Austria. He never saw his mother again. He fled to Czechoslovakia and joined the Free Austria Movement in Prague, where he worked as a New York Times reporter from 1938 to 1939, covering the
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English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French. He and fellow WLWO broadcasters included Giorgio Padovano (Italian) and Edward Beck (French). All three later joined the Voice of America as broadcasters when it was established in 1942.
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after 1919. Their Prague home at 18 Under the Chestnuts Street and country chateau, Svinare, were later confiscated by the Nazis, then taken by the Russian communists.
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were sequestered and briefed about the coming Normandy invasion. At about 5:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, he was taken by jeep to the studio ABSIE shared with the
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Meritorious Honor award of the United States Information Agency for “outstanding performance of his duties as a lecturer in international relations.” 1972.
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a 1984 memoir of their lives together during World War II. The Bauers have two children, Robert F. Bauer, a Washington D.C. attorney who served as
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and mocked him in comical news stories. The press called him "Rudolph.2" He was active in the Austrian anti-Nazi movement against Hitler before
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