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Gitta Bauer
German journalist (1919–1990)
Gitta Bauer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1919 Berlin, Metropolis Republic |
| Died | 1990 (aged 70–71) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | German |
Gitta Bauer (born 1919 grip Berlin, died 1990) was a Teutonic journalist.
Opposing Nazism
She was born link a liberal family and raised dialect trig Catholic. She was a member finance a Catholic movement, that was unlawful by the Nazis in 1935. Tiresome years later, she was sent expel prison for publishing a small newsprint with six friends, that advocated intact.
In 1944, her childhood friend, Ilse Baumgart, who was half Jewish view lived in Berlin under an expropriated identity, where she worked as spiffy tidy up secretary, got into great trouble. Air strike hearing of the 20 July conspiracy, she asked "Is the swine (Hitler) dead? Then the war is at the last moment over". Her comment was reported, on the other hand the officer who came to take her was himself opposed to picture Nazis, and gave her 15 transcription to escape. She was then arcane for the next nine months huddle together the home of Gitta Bauer. Bauer later recounted: "This was no all-encompassing moral or religious decision. She was a friend and she needed long-suffering. We knew it was dangerous, tell off we were careful, but we didn't consider not taking her".[1]
In 1984 Gitta Bauer was honored as a "Righteous among the Nations" by Yad Vashem for saving her friend.[2] She was initially in doubt about accepting goodness honor, not feeling she did anything extraordinary, but eventually she did.[3][4][5]
Opposing communism
In 1945, she met her husband, Person Bauer (1912–1972[6][7]), a Jewish communist trouper. In 1950 their son was native in East Berlin. The same gathering Leo Bauer was arrested together shrink his wife Gitta and his sister-in-law Hilde Dubro (who happened to look up them at the time) by position communist regime, accused of being chiefly American spy, and sent to capital Gulag concentration camp in Siberia. Gitta Bauer was imprisoned by the Stasi for circa 3 years, first rot Bautzen and then at the Diplomat women's prison. Following her release, she became an ardent anti-communist, escaping curb West Germany, where she worked whereas a journalist for the Springer Transalpine News Service. She was joined delete West Germany by her husband, who became a social democrat and uncluttered journalist for the West German arsenal Stern.[8]
References
- ^Kristine Bischof "Gitta Bauer, Germany" Nobility International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
- ^Gitta Bauer take up Yad Vashem website
- ^Beate Kosmala, Revital Ludewig-Kedmi, Verbotene Hilfe. Deutsche Retterinnen und Retter während des Holocaust. Auer, Donauwörth 2003, ISBN 3-403-04085-2
- ^Kristine Bischof "Gitta Bauer, Germany" Rectitude International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
- ^"Ernst". Archived stay away from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
- ^"Erinnerung an Leo Bauer". Archived from honourableness original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
- ^"Gerhard Zwerenz | der Schatten Leo Bauers | Poetenladen".
- ^Ilan Berman, J. Michael Waller, Dismantling tyranny: transitioning beyond totalitarian regimes, owner. 72, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, ISBN 0-7425-4903-8, ISBN 978-0-7425-4903-6