 Bauer and Maria von Kahler were married in Portugal in August, 1940 and sailed on the Portuguese steamer "SS Quanza" immediately afterward to immigrate to the United States.The "SS Quanza" was the first ship of refugees to flee Nazi Europe.After several months of speaking to numerous New York civic organizations about the rise of Nazism in Europe, Bauer was contacted by Crosley Corporation in Cincinnati in mid-1941 and became the German language broadcaster at WLWO in Cincinnati, joining an international staff which broadcast daily shortwave war news from Cincinnati and transmitted them from Mason, Ohio to Europe in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French.