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1923

Ralph Baer was born March 8, 1922, in Germany—a dangerous time and place for Jewish children and their families. Baer faced increasing anti-Semitism growing up. The Nuremberg Laws—a series of highly repressive measures passed in 1935 that deprived German Jews of political and social freedom—forced him to leave school at age thirteen, though he pursued his studies on his own.

Unlike so many during that time, the Baer family was fortunate to have the means to escape Germany for America months before Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—in 1938. On November 9 of that year, Nazi troops throughout Germany smashed windows of stores and homes owned by Jews and set fire to synagogues, injuring—and even killing—German citizens of Jewish decent. These state-sponsored, anti-Jewish riots are considered to be the start of the Holocaust. Because most of his mother’s family had immigrated to the United States in 1895, there were plenty of relatives who were willing to sponsor Ralph Baer and his family, a key immigration law requirement in America at that time.

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The smashing success of home video games, one of the world’s fastest growing and most popular forms of entertainment, was made possible with the advent of a number of technological developments, such as TV sets, computer technology, and graphic design software. It took some groundbreaking creativity, unusual innovation, and exceptional vision for this multi-billion dollar business to come into existence. Ralph Baer, often called the “father of home video games,” clearly demonstrated each of these qualities when he developed the first home video game console in 1972.

Born in Germany on March 8, 1922, Baer emigrated to the United States with his family in 1938 and attended the National Radio Institute, from where he graduated in 1940 as a radio service technician. He operated three radio service stores in New York City from 1940 to 1943 before being drafted into the U.S. Army to serve in WWII. He continued his education in 1946 at the American Institute of Technology in Chicago. He graduated with a BS in Television Engineering in 1949.

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Biography

In case you care to know, here is what I did with my life to date...

1922
Born in south-western Germany.

1938
Left Germany for US with parents and sister via Holland.

1940
Graduated National Radio Institute (NRI) as radio service technician

1940-43
Ran three radio service stores in NY City, serviced all types of home and auto radios, early (42-48 MHz) FM radios and TV Sets (RCA TRS-9 and 12) and built PA systems.

1943-46
Served in US Army, 1 year stateside, 2 years overseas in Europe during WWII. Assigned to Military Intelligence (MI),attached to Eisenhower's HQ in London, but stationed in France.

Became recognized expert on military small arms; returned to US in 1946 with 18 tons of foreign small arms; set up or complemented three official US Army exhibits of small arms in Aberdeen, MD; at the Springfield, MA Armory and in Ft. Riley, KA.

1946-49
Attended American Television Institute of Technology (ATIT) in Chicago. Graduated with BS in Television Engineering - first time TV Engineering degree was conferred anywhere. Bu