At the age of 14 Alfredo Bauer fled to Argentina, Paul Engel as an adult to Colombia. Both professionally medical scientists discovered in Latin-America their passion for writing.Similarities and differences in their lives just as in their autobiographical works will be reviewed in this essay. After comparing the circumstances in Argentina and Colombia at the time of their flight, the biographies of Engel and Bauer will be briefly described. Engel was already a medical scientist when he arrived in Colombia. Integration was difficult, but gradually he became acquainted with his new home. Alfredo Bauer fled to Argentina in 1939. The integration was painful for the teenager, but he also found a new home and, like Paul Engel, decided not to go back to Austria.

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