The Lost German Girl, 1945. V-Day in Europe/
This is Lore Bauer. Born in Kollerschlag, Austria 1921. She was assigned to the Prague anti-aircraft department in late 1944 as a technical assistant, or Helferin.
Raped and beaten by Czech Partisans, Lore was caught fleeing the Red Army into West Czechoslovakia, which had just been declared a demarcated American military zone.
Lore survived the Allied internment camp system, then went on to build a new life, working for an Airlines company after the war.
She died in 94′, at the age of 73… The film footage was taken on May 8, 45′, near Plzeň, along the old Prague Highway, by Oren Haglund of the United States Army Air Corps.
