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Gitta Bauer
German journalist (1919–1990)
Gitta Bauer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1919 Berlin, Weimar Republic |
| Died | 1990 (aged 70–71) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | German |
Gitta Bauer (born 1919 in Berlin, died 1990) was a German journalist.
Opposing Nazism
She was born into a liberal family and raised a Catholic.
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She was a member of a Catholic movement, that was banned by the Nazis in 1935. Some years later, she was sent to prison for publishing a small newspaper with six friends, that advocated peace.
In 1944, her childhood friend, Ilse Baumgart, who was half Jewish and lived in Berlin under an assumed identity, where she worked as a secretary, got into great trouble.
Upon hearing of the 20 July plot, she asked "Is the swine (Hitler) dead?
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Then the war is finally over". Her comment was reported, but the officer who came to arrest her was himself opposed to the Nazis, and gave her 15 minutes to escape. She was then hidden for the next nine months in the