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In addition to his other talents, Mandl was an inventor. He developed and patented two very different devices. One was a transparent model of a human head (the phonetic head) that contained movable speech organs and was used to help teach pronunciation of foreign languages. The second was the
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had agreed to help smuggle her to the West. He engaged a professional illusionist to build a hideaway in his personal automobile, a
Citroen DS-19, drove to Czechoslovakia with his entire family and smuggled Slavi out. This incident is documented in Mandl's autobiography,
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Mandl was a tireless contemporary witness to the horrors of life under totalitarian regimes and particularly to the
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Herbert Thomas Mandl on the occasion of the premiere of his play The Voyage to the Center of
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