Author. Hans Habe received notoriety as a prolific Hungarian-born American author and newspaper publisher. Born János Békessy, his family relocated to Austria when he was a child. His father was a Jewish Austrian newspaper man, writing for "The Hour" in Vienna. After graduating from the Franz Joseph College in Vienna and studying at the University of Vienna, he attended the University of Heidelberg, studying law and literature, but returned to Austria when Nazi Germany began their antisemitic regime. Eventually, his family converted to Christian. He started his newspaper career in 1930 as a reporter for the "Vienna Sunday and Monday Post". At age twenty, he became one of the youngest newspaper editors in Europe, when he took charge of the "Austrian Evening News. He wrote under the pseudonyms of Antonio Corte, Frank Richard, Frederick Gert, John Richler, Hans Wolfgang, Morgenthau-Boy, Jean Bekessy, Janos Bekessy, Robert Pilchowski and Alexander Holmes. In 1934, he was the editor of the "Vienna Morning News," and from 1935 to 1939, he was a foreign correspondent for the "Prague Daily News," covering the League of Nations in Geneva. In 1938 after the Nazi forces invaded Austria, all his writings were forbidden by the Nazi government. He fled to France, joining the France Foreign Legion. On June 22, 1940 he was captured by the Nazi Force and detained in a Prison of War camp near Paris, but escaped. He traveled through Vincy-France to Spain, coming to the United States, where he was given political asylum since his name was on the Nazis list of forbidden authors. He became a naturalize American citizen in 1941. In 1942 he was drafted in the United States Army and trained in psychological warfare. He was assigned to the 1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company for anti-Nazi propaganda and deployed in March of 1943 to North Africa to participate in "Operation Avalanche," with him first landing in Italy, going on to Luxemburg and Germany. By 1944 he was back in the United States as an instructor of psychological warfare. He became part of the group of writers and newspaper men, which helped establish a newspaper system in Germany after the war. He created 18 newspapers in West Germany, becoming the editor of one in Munich. In 1949 he held a position with the "Munich Illustrated" and in 1951 with the "Echo of the Week." From 1952 to 1953, he authored a column, "Outside America" for the "Los Angeles Daily News." After 1953, he mainly wrote novels. A source credits him with eight million newspaper articles. Credited with at least 26 books, his 1965 book, "The Mission" was a huge success, telling his story of the League of Nations. His autobiography, "I Introduce Myself" was published in 1954. At least eight of his novels were adapted to film in the either the United States, England, Germany or Hungary. The 1943 film "The Cross of Lorraine" starring Gene Kelley was an adaption of his novel "A Thousand Shall Fall," which was about his war experiences in the French Foreign Legion. He married six times with five divorces, and was sued for bigamy once as a divorce was found invalid. With his third wife, Eleanor Post Hutton, the heiress to the food company General Mills, he had a son. With his fifth wife, American actress Eloise Hardt, he had a daughter, Marina Elizabeth Habe, who, as a college student, was murdered allegedly by Charles Mason in 1969. Licci Balla was his last wife, and her name "Licci" is inscribed on his grave marker. In 1972 he was a recipient of coveted Theodor Herzl Prize, which was awarded by the International Jewish Congress. His other honors include the Jerusalem Medal in 1942, Luxembourg War Cross in 1945, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976, and Konrad Adenauer Prize in 1978. He lived in Switzerland the last 17 years of his life, writing for political columns from a conservative view.