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Show 5 Refugee Pianist Is ) U. S. Air Camera Man Fled From Austria When Germans Took Over. DENVER. Hans Pap, who fled from Austria where he was a concert pianist when Adolf Hitler took over in 1938, now is Private Pap of the army air corps. Pap was known to the concert j stages of Vienna and Paris, but now he is equally well known to the "kitchen police" detail at Lowry field. That's where he started out at the army air corps technical school. The 30-year-old Viennese concert pianist Was drafted in New York and assigned to Lowry field after being inducted at Fort Dix, N. J. "I don't mind it a bit," Pap says. "It's the least I can do to show my appreciation to my adopted country. coun-try. "When the Nazi army took over Austria it didn't take long to discover dis-cover my Jewish ancestry made me, to say the least, undesirable," he says. "Without funds I did not know how I could reach the United States but finally friends in this country guaranteed my passage and eventually even-tually I reached New York. He applied for citizenship papers one week after he arrived and now has his first papers. He had signed a 'contract to appear ap-pear as a pianist on television broadcasts broad-casts when he was drafted. "But I'm not listed as a musician in the army," he says. "I studied photography, too, in Vienna and I'm out here as a photographer with the air corps." . He was transferred to photography photogra-phy duty after finishing his basic training, which included "kitchen police" detail. American soldiers, in his opinion, are more carefree than the soldiers of Europe. |