Title: Leo Lania Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1916-1959

Creator:

• Lania, Leo, 1896-1961

Call Number: U.S. Mss 27AF

Quantity: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Papers of the journalist, propagandist, and writer Lazar Herrmann who worked under the pen name Leo Lania. The bulk of the collection relates to Lania's career as a journalist in the United States and Germany and, to a lesser extent, to his work in theater and film in Europe after 1945; there is little material on his opposition to Nazism or his pre-World War II stage and screen writing. Much of the collection is in German. Alphabetically arranged correspondence, ca. 1935-1961, chiefly relates to Lania's professional life. Prominent correspondents include Brigid Brophy, Pearl S. Buck, Max Eastman, Lion Feuchtwanger, Granville Hicks, Hans V. Kaltenborn, Fritz Lang, Walter Lippmann, Louis P. Lochner, W. Somerset Maugham, Edgar Ansell Mowrer, Erwin Piscator, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Dorothy Thompson, and Sigrid Undset. Correspondence, drafts, reviews, notes, and outlines document 22 books, 28 plays, 26 motion pictures, and many radio broadcasts, speeches, and articles. Of particular interest are a fictionalized account of the last days of Jan Masaryk; a biography of Joseph Schildkraut; two autobiographical works: The Shanghai Drama and The Last Act, two films on which he worked with G. W. Pabst; propaganda scripts for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America; and articles for The Nation, Reader's Digest, Vogue, and a number of foreign journals about his observations of European politics and the Cold War.

Language: English

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Leo Lania, journalist, author and playwright, was born Lazar Herrmann the Ukrainian city of Kharkov. He was the son of a German-Russian physician and an Austrian mother. After the father's death in 1906, Frau Herrmann returned to Vienna with her two sons. Lazar became an Austrian citizen in 1914 and attended the University of Vienna. He enlisted in the Imperial army a year later, serving as an artillery lieutenant. Though he won eight decorations, including the iron cross, he consistently opposed the war. Writing under the pseudonym “Lania” (a diminutive of Lazar), he published antiwar essays in the Vienna Arbeiter-Zeitung. Socialist and pacifist views characterized his early work.

Lania served in 1919 as editor of the Vienna Rote Fahne, organ of the Austrian Communist party. He resigned in a dispute over party policy and moved in 1920 to Berlin, where he became editor of the Börsen-Kurier and founded the first independent international telegraph agency, “Indeta.” When the postwar inflation destroyed his business, he joined the staff of the Berlin office of the Chicago Daily News as assistant to Edgar Ansell Mowrer.

Shortly before the “Beer Hall Putsch” of 1923, posing as an Italian admirer of Nazism, he lived ten days with Hitler, whom he denounced in a study of Nazism's influence on the lower middle class called The Gravedigger of Germany (c. 1924). At about the same time he published Traffic in Arms, which exposed for the first time the extent of German rearmament. Indicted for treason, Lania came under intense pressure to reveal his sources. This he refused to do, and was rescued from the threat of imprisonment by passage of the “Lex Lania” by the Reichstag. This law extended to journalists the same privileges of confidentiality accorded clergymen, physicians and attorneys.

During the 1920's, Lania associated with the Weltbühne circle and wrote a number of stage plays, one of which was directed by Erwin Piscator in the Berliner Volksbühne. He collaborated with G. W. Pabst and Bertolt Brecht in producing the first film version of The Threepenny Opera. Lania continued to work with Piscator, Brecht and Max Reinhardt--for whom he read play manuscripts--until the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933.

The advent of Nazi rule forced Lania and his family, consisting of his wife, Maria Herman Lania, and young son, Frederick, to leave Germany, settling first in Austria and subsequently in London and Paris. For the next seven years, the Lania family endured separation and economic hardship, since Lania's literary work in Paris produced very little income.

Both as a Jew and as a man characterized by the Völkischer Beobachter as “one of the most dangerous enemies of the Third Reich,” Lania had good reason to fear Hitler's vengeance. Caught unprepared by the swift defeat of France in 1940, he fell into German hands and was interned in the occupied zone. He escaped from the camp, made his way on foot with his family to Spain, and received permission to proceed to the United States. Houghton-Mifflin immediately offered him an advance on an account of his adventures, which appeared under the title The Darkest Hour (1941). Thus began Lania's new literary career in America.

Lania worked as a propagandist for the Office of War Information after Pearl Harbor. As the war drew to a close, he joined the Joint Distribution Committee, a resettlement organization, and returned to Europe to assist displaced persons. Throughout the 1950's he acted as foreign correspondent for many American and European publications. He taught and lectured widely in the United States and diligently promoted the United Jewish Appeal. Among his writings during this period were many political commentaries, a roman à clef based on the last hours of Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, a pictorial biography of Ernest Hemingway, and the ghost written autobiography of West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. At the time of his death, he was completing a novel called The Generals.

The Leo Lania papers, 1916-1973, document Lania's journalistic career in Europe and, to a lesser extent, his work in theater and film in Europe and the United States. Most of this material dates from after 1945, and about forty percent of it is in German. The collection is arranged in four series: Correspondence, Writings and Lectures, Biographical Material, and Family Papers. The files pertaining to Lania's work as an author of books, plays, motion pictures, radio and television presentations, and his lectures form the Writings and Lectures series and constitute the major portion of the collection.

The General Correspondence, 1935-1961, is arranged alphabetically by correspondent's last name; approximately half is written in German, French and other European languages. Although there is some personal and family correspondence and several letters describing living conditions in England after World War II, the majority pertain to his work as a journalist and lecturer. Included are letters confirming speaking engagements, congratulatory letters on the publication of his books and articles and negotiations with publishers; these reveal the ways in which a speaker and writer on contemporary affairs kept his name before the public. Prominent correspondents include John and Brigid Brophy, Pearl Buck, Charles Duff, Max Eastman, Lion Feuchtwanger, Granville Hicks, Hans V. Kaltenborn, Fritz Lang, Walter Lippmann, Louis Lochner, W. Somerset Maugham, Edgar Ansell Mowrer, Erwin Piscator, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Dorothy Thompson and Sigrid Undset. The subseries of Special Topics correspondence contains letters on a few specific subjects, but similar correspondence is filed in other series of the collection by subject.

The WRITINGS AND LECTURES series consists of material documenting the production of Lania's Lectures, Books, Plays, Motion Pictures, Radio and Television Scripts and Articles, and is arranged by genre and alphabetically thereunder. Supplementing the correspondence, drafts, notes, published works, scripts and other documents collected here are scrapbooks containing reviews and publicity materials. Although many of the titles have been anglicized much of Lania's work is in foreign languages.

There is material on 13 Books, 1936-1961. Lania's most successful books were usually written after a tour of Europe. The collection includes an outline, correspondence with publishers and a mailing list for The Foreign Minister (1956) as well as a manuscript draft of the stage play Lania adapted from the book. Concerning My Father and I (1959), the biography of German actor Joseph Schildkraut, there is correspondence showing the interaction between the biographer and his subject, a manuscript, Schildkraut's notes, and reviews. Reviews and publicity materials form the major portion of the material relating to Lania's autobiographical works, The Darkest Hour (1941) and Today We Are Brothers (1942).

There is some material on My Road to Berlin (1960), the Willy Brandt autobiography ghostwritten by Lania. A portion of this concerns the libel action instituted by Lania against the Custos Verlag after that firm published a personal attack on him.

The collection contains two versions of a proposed book, “The Generals,” one corrected by Lania shortly before his death, and a revised and edited version produced by Franz Hoellering. Lucy Lania's correspondence file records her efforts to have this work published during the 1960's.

Lania's work on the stage in Europe is represented by material, 1927-1938, on fifteen Plays, not all of which were produced. These outlines, drafts, notes and correspondence show his involvement in the development of the German political drama, of which Brecht is the best known exponent. Most of this material is in German or French.

Between 1938 and 1960 Lania was a prolific writer of Motion Picture scripts. The collection contains correspondence, notes, outlines, scripts and articles on many films, some of which were produced in Europe. Some of these manuscripts are in French or German. Included is material on two films on which he worked with the noted German director G. W. Pabst: The Shanghai Drama and The Last Act. There is no material on their German version of Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.

Filed in the Radio and TV subseries are scripts, reports and sketches from Lania's work as a broadcast journalist, 1938-1953. These are all propaganda efforts, especially those done for Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America.

The collection clearly illustrates Lania's work as a free-lance writer for United States, German and European newspapers and magazines from the mid-1930's until the end of his life. His articles appeared in Reader's Digest, The Nation, Vogue, United Nations World (not an official publication of the United Nations), Saturday Review, Die Tat, Die Arbeitszeitung and Die Westdeutsche Allgemeine. These pieces contain observations from his German and American travels and analyses of politics and the cold war.

The BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS include articles about Lania, publishers' blurbs, a Press Club biographical listing, his United States immigration documents, several passports and numerous versions of his curriculum vitae. Also included is a file of sixty-fifth birthday greetings and details of Lucy Lania's efforts to secure a “grave of honor” for her husband in Vienna.

The FAMILY PAPERS contain correspondence and a record of Lucy Lania's long struggle to obtain compensation from Berlin for injuries to her husband's health inflicted by forced emigration in 1933. Also included is a prospectus for a book, “This Shook the World,” by Lania's son, Frederick Herman. During the last years of her life, Lucy Lania lived in Munich, while her son pursued his architectural career in the United States.

Acquisition Information

Deposited by Frederick Herman, Norfolk, VA, September 6, 1968; presented by him, 1975-1977. Accession Number: MCHC 68-88, MCHC76-22, MCHC 76-55, MCHC76-80, MCHC77-37

Processing Information

Processed by Eleanor McKay and B. Rosenthal, February 17, 1976.

Reprocessed by Richard Bazillion (FGH intern) - Joanne Hohler, October 1978.

	Series: Correspondence, c. 1935-1961
Box   1 Folder   1-6	General, A-Z.
	Special Topics
Box   1 Folder   7	American Joint Distribution Committee lectures, 1944-1949.
Box   1 Folder   8	Letters to the editor, 1959-1961.
Box   1 Folder   9	Restitution and compensation, 1960-1961.
Box   1 Folder   10	Ulm public college lecture schedule, 1961.
Box   1 Folder   11	Willy Brandt re autobiography, 1959-1960.
Box   1 Folder   12	Shirley Burke, 1960-1961.
	Series: Writings And Lectures	⇧
	Lectures
Box   2 Folder   1	“America in the World,” 1950-1951.
Box   2 Folder   2	American Joint Distribution Committee lecture trip article, 1943-1944.
Box   2 Folder   3	American Lecture Bureau, Inc., 1941-1942.
Box   2 Folder   4	European lecture tour -- clippings, 1961.
Box   2 Folder   5	German lecture trip, 1950, September-October.
Box   2 Folder   6	“Is Europe Doomed?” -- lecture notes, 1951.
Box   2 Folder   7	“Man Confronting Nothingness” -- lecture notes, 1956, October 26.
Box   2 Folder   8	Correspondence regarding lectures (including fan mail), 1944-1956.
Box   2 Folder   9	Miscellaneous notes, drafts, and research materials, post 1946 (?).
	Books
Box   17 Folder   5-10	Autobiography. (See: Today We Are Brothers below.)
Box   2 Folder   10	Bob -- manuscript draft, c. 1936.
Box   2 Folder   11	Chocolate Judge, The -- manuscript draft, 1958, March 30.
Box   13 Folder   1	Darkest Hour, The -- reviews and correspondence, 1941.
Box   2 Folder   12	Forbidden Zone, The -- prospectus, n.d.
	Foreign Minister, The
Box   2 Folder   13	Outline, c. 1952-1956.
Box   2 Folder   14	Correspondence with publishers, 1950, October 16-1959, February 5.
Box   2 Folder   15	Mailing list, c. 1949-1956.
Box   2 Folder   16	Play manuscript, c. 1957.
Box   14 Folder   2	Scrapbook -- correspondence, reviews, interviews, 1956-1957; lectures, announcements, clippings, correspondence, 1954-1959.
	Generale, Die
Box   15 Folder   1-4	Manuscript draft -- chapters 1-12, 1960.
Box   15 Folder   5-7	Final version corrected by Lania -- chapters 1-11.
Box   15 Folder   8-9	Edited by Franz Hoellering following Lania's death -- chapters. 3, 5-10.
	Original typescript draft
Box   16 Folder   1-2	Part 1a.
Box   16 Folder   3	Part 1b.
Box   17 Folder   1	Character sketches and chapter outlines.
Box   17 Folder   2	Notes by Lucy Lania re projected conclusion.
Box   17 Folder   3-4	“Second Book” -- chapters 1-4.
Box   2 Folder   17	Foreign publishers, 1959.
	Hemingway: Illustrated Biography
Box   2 Folder   18	Manuscript in German, 1960.
Box   13 Folder   4	Clippings, 1961.
Box   2 Folder   19	How Hitler Has Destroyed Anti-Semitism -- outline, c. 1944.
Box   2 Folder   20	In the Shadow of the Titans -- prospectus for novel, n.d.
Box   2 Folder   21	Land of Promise -- book reviews, 1934-1949.
Box   3 Folder   10	My Father and I -- see Schildkraut, Joseph.
Box   4 Folder   1-3	My Road to Berlin
Box   3 Folder   1	Corrections to manuscript, 1961.
Box   3 Folder   2	Libel action against Custos Verlag, 1961.
	Nine Lives of Europe, The
Box   3 Folder   3	Manuscript draft, 1950.
Box   3 Folder   4	Anonymous critical comments, n.d.
Box   13 Folder   8	Scrapbook -- reviews, correspondence, lectures and interviews, c. 1945-1955.
	Pilgrims Without Shrine
Box   3 Folder   5	Manuscript draft, 1935-1938.
Box   3 Folder   6	Reviews, serial version, 1935-1938.
	Police Chiefs
Box   3 Folder   7	Manuscript draft, c. 1955.
Box   3 Folder   8	Background notes and clippings, c. 1955.
Box   3 Folder   9	Quest of Boris Borussov, The -- prospectus for novel, n.d.
	Schildkraut, Joseph -- biography, My Father and I
Box   3 Folder   10	Manuscript draft, 1957-1959.
Box   4 Folder   1	Schildkraut's notes, c. 1957-1959.
Box   4 Folder   2	Correspondence and notes, c. 1957-1959.
Box   4 Folder   3	Book reviews, c. 1959.
	Today We Are Brothers (autobiography) -- Conquer Fear: The Biography of the Lost Generation
Box   17 Folder   5-10	German manuscript version.
Box   14 Folder   4	Scrapbook -- reviews, interviews, lectures and correspondence, c. 1942-1948.
Box   11 Folder   15-16	See also: “The Land of Our Children.”
	Unheard Melody
Box   4 Folder   4	Correspondence with publishers, manuscript draft, 1945-1948.
Box   4 Folder   5	Manuscript draft, notes, revisions, 1945-148.
Box   4 Folder   6	Willy Brandt: A Man and His City -- prospectus, 1959.
Box   4 Folder   7	World in Turmoil -- book reviews, 1954-1955.
Box   4 Folder   8	Royalty statements, 1960, 1962-1969.
Box   13 Folder   6	Miscellaneous book reviews.
	Plays
Box   4 Folder   9	Argonaut Smith -- manuscript draft, n.d.
Box   4 Folder   10	Cranes, The -- outline, correspondence with television executives, 1955-1956.
Box   4 Folder   11	Cranes and Hearts, The [sic], n.d.
Box   4 Folder   12	Comrade Ivan -- outline and notes, 1951, January.
Box   4 Folder   13	Disenchanted, The (Budd Schulberg) -- contract to produce stage script in German, 1959, June 18.
Box   4 Folder   14	Emigrants, The -- manuscript draft, c. 1929.
Box   4 Folder   15	Episode, The,n.d.
	God, King and Fatherland
Box   5 Folder   1	Manuscript draft, c. 1928.
Box   14 Folder   1	Clippings and scrapbook, 1930.
Box   5 Folder   2-3	Good Soldier Schweik, The -- manuscript drafts, n.d.
Box   5 Folder   4-6	Hero, The -- three drafts, 1936.
Box   5 Folder   7	I Fooled Hitler -- manuscript and correspondence, 1956-1957.
Box   5 Folder   8	Lesson, The or Let's Pretend, n.d.
Box   5 Folder   9	Long Night, The -- registration of copyright, 1958.
Box   5 Folder   10	Murder of Dollfuss, The, n.d.
Box   5 Folder   11	Oil Field -- manuscript draft, 1934.
Box   5 Folder   12	Prophecy, The or The Small Town on the Autobahn,n.d.
	Prosperity
Box   5 Folder   13	Manuscript draft, 1927.
Box   14 Folder   1	Clippings in scrapbook.
Box   6 Folder   1	Reserved Quarters -- manuscript draft, n.d.
Box   14 Folder   1	Roar China -- clippings in scrapbook, 1929.
	Schweik Marches On
Box   6 Folder   2	First rough draft.
Box   6 Folder   3-5	Subsequent drafts.
Box   6 Folder   6	Contemporary version.
Box   6 Folder   7	Correspondence re staging of English version.
Box   6 Folder   8	Anonymous critical appraisal, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   9	Shura and Jimmy -- manuscript draft, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   10	Sightseeing or Going Places,n.d.
	Soul in Darkness
Box   6 Folder   11	Manuscript draft, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   12	Scene settings, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   13	Summer Dream, A -- German and English versions, n.d.
Box   13 Folder   7	Three Penny Opera, The -- clippings, 1960.
Box   6 Folder   14	Ultimatum -- manuscript draft, 1938.
Box   6 Folder   15	Unbewitched, The -- German adaptation of Budd Schulberg play, n.d.
Box   6 Folder   16	White Slave, The -- manuscript draft, 1938.
	Woman Without Love, A
Box   6 Folder   17	Manuscript draft, c. 1933.
Box   6 Folder   18	Story, c. 1933.
Box   6 Folder   19	Character sketches, n.d.
Box   13 Folder   6	Miscellaneous play reviews.
Box   13 Folder   2	Scrapbook -- miscellaneous articles by Lania on European and American theater and literature, c. 1924-1932.
	Motion Pictures
Box   7 Folder   1	American Consul -- script, 1941, May.
Box   7 Folder   2	Barge Kid, The -- scripts, 1949, October-1950, June.
Box   7 Folder   3	Call of Youth, The -- script and outline, 1941, August.
Box   7 Folder   4	Cavalcade of Love -- outline, 1938.
Box   7 Folder   5	Deluded Passion -- scripts, 1954, June.
Box   7 Folder   6	Elisabeth of Austria -- script, 1938, August.
Box   7 Folder   7	Five Members of the Press -- script, 1938, January.
Box   7 Folder   8	Frontiers -- script and notes, 1938, July.
Box   7 Folder   9	Great Vacuum, The -- outline, notes, correspondence, n.d.
Box   7 Folder   10	Hatful of Rain -- cast and synopsis, 1957.
Box   7 Folder   11	Hungarian Rhapsody -- scripts, 1939, July-August.
Box   7 Folder   12	Incendiary of Tanger, The -- scripts and notes, 1939, May.
Box   7 Folder   13	Iron Ring, The -- outline, 1939, July.
Box   7 Folder   14	Love in the Air Raid Shelter -- outlines, notes, 1940-1941.
Box   7 Folder   15	Mountains Shall Sing, The -- outlines, scripts, 1949, n.d.
Box   7 Folder   16	Piece of Chalk, A -- scripts, 1943-1944.
Box   7 Folder   17	Poet in Exile -- outline, 1939, May.
Box   7 Folder   18	Oh, Say Can You See...(Yankee Doodle Goes to Town) -- scripts, n.d.
	Shanghai Drama
Box   8 Folder   1	Outline and notes, 1938.
Box   8 Folder   2	Outlines, clippings, 1938.
Box   8 Folder   3-4	Slezak, Leo -- film, scripts, outlines, correspondence, c. 1956.
Box   8 Folder   5	SOS Titanic -- outlines, 1937-1938, n.d.
Box   8 Folder   6	Strong Brothers -- scripts, 1938, n.d.
Box   8 Folder   7	Surrounded Hotel -- outlines, n.d.
Box   8 Folder   8-9	Ten Days to Die -- manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, c. 1950-1956.
Box   8 Folder   10	Wonderful Trunk of Mr. O. F., The -- outline, n.d.
Box   8 Folder   11	You Don't Know the People Closest to You, n.d.
Box   8 Folder   12	Miscellaneous outlines and notes, n.d.
	Radio and Television
Box   9 Folder   1	“Gertie” -- scripts, n.d.
Box   9 Folder   2	“Goint Out With the Dogi” [sic] -- scripts, n.d.
Box   9 Folder   3	“Man Numbered 17381, The” -- script, 1938.
	Radio Free Europe
Box   9 Folder   4	Scripts, 1950, March 26-April 2.
Box   9 Folder   5	“As the Comrade Sees It” -- scripts, 1950-1951.
Box   9 Folder   6	Scripts, c. 1950-1951.
Box   9 Folder   7	Scripts, economic shows, c. 1951.
Box   9 Folder   8	Radio Propaganda, c. 1943.
Box   9 Folder   9	Radio reports, 1953.
Box   9 Folder   10	Radio sketches, 1942, March.
Box   9 Folder   11	Radio and Television programs -- suggested topics, Südwestfunk, 1960, November 20.
Box   9 Folder   12-13	Voice of America -- scripts, 1950-1952.
Box   9 Folder   14	“What Are We Fighting For?” -- script, 1945, spring.
Box   9 Folder   15	“You Cannot Bluff the Judge,” n.d.
	Articles
Box   10 Folder   1	“Acquaintance with the Arbeiter-Zeitung,” 1961, August 13.
Box   10 Folder   2	Aftermath of War -- articles and clippings, c. 1942.
Box   10 Folder   3	“America Is Different” -- proposed series, n.d.
Box   10 Folder   4	“American Youth,” 1942, June.
Box   10 Folder   5	“Anton Teshechow, `Der Teufel im Blut' ” -- critical review, 1959.
Box   10 Folder   6	Ben Gurion's resignation -- articles and clippings, 1953, December-1954, June 4.
Box   10 Folder   7	Book reviews written by Lania, 1941, February-1955, March 19.
Box   10 Folder   8	“Buechner, Kortner and the Contemporary Public” -- review article, 1959.
Box   10 Folder   9	“Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the 20th July 1944...,” by Walter von Cube, 1954.
Box   10 Folder   10	“Danube Was Never Blue, The,” 1960.
Box   10 Folder   11	“Duty of the Emigre, The” -- letter to the editor, 1940, December-1941, February 1.
Box   10 Folder   12	East-West trade -- articles, 1951.
Box   10 Folder   13	“Eisenstein, The Man Who Died Twice” -- articles, 1948, April-May.
Box   10 Folder   14	“Encounters: S. M. Eisenstein, Egon Erwin Kisch,” 1961(?).
Box   10 Folder   15	“Eternal Conspirator, The - the End of the Terrorist Savinkov,” n.d.
Box   10 Folder   16	Europe -- articles, interview with Eduard Benes, 1947, winter.
Box   10 Folder   17	European P.E.N. Club in America, The -- correspondence and organizational notes, c. 1940-1941.
Box   10 Folder   18	“Flight to the Front,” 1959.
Box   10 Folder   19	“Forest of Fear” -- condensed article, 1951, December.
Box   10 Folder   20	Freedom of the press -- articles, clippings and notes, 1944, April-1950, July.
Box   10 Folder   21	“Friedrich Austerlitz,” n.d.
Box   10 Folder   22	German literature (“Pilgrims Without Shrines”) -- article and background clippings, 1950.
	German newspaper articles
Box   10 Folder   23-26	1951, September 13-1952, August 21.
Box   10 Folder   27	c. 1956-1957.
Box   10 Folder   28	1959, February-March 12.
Box   11 Folder   1	Germany's rearmament -- article and background clippings, 1950.
Box   11 Folder   2	“Ghost Stalks Over America, A” and “Two Sergeants Return Home,” c. 1945.
Box   11 Folder   3	“Home of the Heavy Bombers” -- two drafts, c. 1955.
Box   11 Folder   4	“I Confess I'm An Optimist” -- various drafts, 1944, October-1945, April.
Box   11 Folder   5	“I Never Was a Stranger Here,” 1942, March 1.
Box   11 Folder   6	“I Remember Christmas in Austria” and “Three Christmases in Austria” -- drafts, c. 1940.
Box   11 Folder   7	“In the Beginning Was the Picture,” 1959.
Box   11 Folder   8	Interviews and articles after Lania's arrival in the United States, 1936-1942.
Box   11 Folder   9	“Is Germany Ripe For a Revolution?” and “The Need For Anti-Nazi Propaganda,” c. 1942.
Box   11 Folder   10	“Italy and the Pessimists” -- article and background clippings, 1943, August 3-September 9.
Box   11 Folder   11	“Jewish Life in Europe,” 1948.
Box   11 Folder   12	“Kindler Verlag After Ten Years” -- review article, c. 1958.
Box   11 Folder   13	“Knights in Rusty Armour, or Pilgrims Without a Shrine” -- comment on Arthur Koestler's philosophy, 1943, February 14-1944, January.
Box   11 Folder   14	Kohler strike, 1954-1956.
	“Land Of Our Children”
Box   11 Folder   15	Drafts, 1944-1945.
Box   11 Folder   16	Chapter added to Today We Are Brothers, 1954. Note: See also: Today We Are Brothers, box 17, folders 5-10.
Box   11 Folder   17	“Little Towns of America, You Were Never Like This,” 1941, July 5.
Box   11 Folder   18	“Loyal German, The - The Frivolous Frenchwoman...,” 1941, April.
Box   11 Folder   19	Man Who Embalmed Lenin, The” -- various drafts, 1948-1949.
Box   11 Folder   20	“Married Life in Berlin,” c. 1951.
Box   11 Folder   21	Mature Europe -- newspaper and magazine articles, 1948.
Box   11 Folder   22	Midwest tour -- articles and correspondence, 1954-1955.
Box   11 Folder   23	Miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, c. 1932-1955.
Box   11 Folder   24	“Murder in the Forest,” 1951, June.
Box   11 Folder   25	“My Son Is In the Army,” 1943, May-June.
Box   11 Folder   26	“New Phase of American Foreign Policy, A,” 1941.
Box   11 Folder   27	Pabst, G. W. defense -- letter to New York Times, 1950, April 2.
Box   11 Folder   28	“Poland Is Different” -- incomplete article, n.d.
Box   11 Folder   29	Political warfare plans, c. 1953.
Box   11 Folder   30	Postwar European literature -- articles, 1947, April 19-July 26.
Box   11 Folder   31	“Pro and Con: An Exemplary Life,” n.d.
Box   11 Folder   32	Propaganda, notes, 1941, June.
Box   11 Folder   33	“Repentent Sinner, The” -- short story, 1945, January.
Box   12 Folder   19	“Reuther, Walter Philip,” 1954.
Box   12 Folder   1	Russia -- articles and clippings, 1932, May-June; 1936, January-April.
Box   12 Folder   2	Russian magazine articles -- drafts, c. 1935-1936.
Box   12 Folder   3	“Slaughterhouse in Omaha, The,” c. 1954.
Box   12 Folder   4	“Sommerfest in Austria” -- by Franz Hoellering, n.d.
Box   12 Folder   5	Soviet challenge and USA dilemma -- articles, notes, lecture, c. 1952.
Box   12 Folder   6	“Story of the Unextinguished Moon, The” -- by Joseph Bornstein, incomplete, n.d.
Box   12 Folder   7	Tagesspiegel and other newspaper and magazine articles, 1949-1950.
Box   12 Folder   8	“Terrorist, The” -- short story, 1947, August-September.
Box   12 Folder   9	“Thought control in the United States, Progressive Citizens of America conference, 1947, July 11.
Box   12 Folder   10	“Through Newfoundland,” n.d.
Box   12 Folder   11	“Thursday Pieces,” “The Age of Discontent” -- outlines of three articles, n.d.
	United Nations World
Box   12 Folder   12-16	Articles, 1950, December-1953, fall.
Box   12 Folder   17	Correspondence re European trip, 1953-1954.
Box   12 Folder   18	United States South -- articles, 1951-1952.
Box   12 Folder   19	“Walter Philip Reuther,” 1954.
Box   12 Folder   20	War propaganda -- articles, c. 1942.
Box   12 Folder   21	“What Makes an Orator?,” 1941, March 15.
Box   12 Folder   22	“Where Are the Standards?,” n.d.
Box   12 Folder   23	“Where Do We Go From Here? America's Challenge and Opportunity,” c. 1953.
Box   12 Folder   24	“Why Hitler Will Lose the War” -- articles and outline of proposed handbook of democracy by Lania and Dorothy Thompson.
Box   12 Folder   25	Young Audiences, Inc. -- programs, clippings, notes, 1952, summer-1955.
Box   12 Folder   26	Miscellaneous fragments, n.d.
Box   13 Folder   5-6	Miscellaneous articles.
Box   14 Folder   3	Miscellaneous articles -- political and world affairs.
	Series: Biographical Materials	⇧
Box   14 Folder   5	Articles, publishers' blurbs, press club biography, c. 1936-1959.
Box   14 Folder   6	Autobiographical and bibliographical information.
Box   14 Folder   7	Immigration and naturalization, 1939, December 4-1950, December 18.
Box   14 Folder   8	Passports, 1946-1956.
Box   14 Folder   9	Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany -- Lania's grant application, 1959.
Box   14 Folder   10	Professional membership -- Protective Association of German Language Writers, n.d.
Box   14 Folder   11	Sixty-fifth birthday greetings, 1961.
Box   14 Folder   12	Death of Lania -- attempt to secure a “grave of honor” in Vienna, 1961-1962.
	Series: Family Papers	⇧
	Papers of Maria Herman-Lania
Box   18 Folder   1	General correspondence, 1961-1973.
Box   18 Folder   2	Correspondence with Kindler Verlag re Die Generale, 1962.
Box   18 Folder   3-5	Illness compensation request, 1960-1971.
Box   18 Folder   6	Papers of Friedrich Herman -- prospectus for book, “This Shook the World,” n.d.