Riccardo Bauer was an Italian anti-fascist journalist and political figure.
11 Facts About Riccardo Bauer
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Riccardo Bauer was one of the early Italians who fought against Benito Mussolini's rule.
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Riccardo Bauer was born in Milan on 6 January 1896.
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Riccardo Bauer's parents were Francesco who was from Bohemia and Giuseppina Cairoli.
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In 1926 Riccardo Bauer helped Filippo Turati's escape from Milan to Paris due to the oppression of the Fascist rule.
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Back in Milan, Riccardo Bauer resumed his activities and founded the Giustizia e Liberta movement with Ernesto Rossi which laid the basis of the Action Party.
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Riccardo Bauer was sentenced to 20 years in prison and was released only after the end of the Fascist rule on 25 July 1943.
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In November 1943 Riccardo Bauer was elected as a board member and the chairman of the board of the Action Party in the first convention held in Florence in secret.
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Riccardo Bauer was one of the leaders of the armed Giustizia e Liberta units operating in Rome.
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Riccardo Bauer was president of the Humanitarian Society in Milan from 1950 to 1969.
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Riccardo Bauer died at a clinic in Milan on 15 October 1982.