Veronika Oleksyn, an American-born freelance correspondent for Austria's Kurier daily, thought she had written as much as she could about Ron Paul's connection to Austria: He adheres to the Austrian School of economic thought, which espouses, among other things, reinstituting the gold standard and abolishing the central bank.
The family considered itself fully assimilated, but after the Nazi annexation of Austria, in 1938, Mischel remembers being taunted in school by the Hitler Youth and watching as his father, hobbled by childhood polio, was forced to limp through the streets in his pajamas.