 A master of Austrian slang dialects, Bauer broadcast anti-Nazi news stories in German anonymously through the Austrian Freedom Broadcasting Station in Fecamp, Normandy, in the 1930s and often imitated Adolf Hitler 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 World War II, and in 1980 was awarded the Great Silver Order of Honor from the Republic of Austria for Service in the Liberation of Austria.Bauer graduated from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland in 1931; took an M.A.