Title: Léo Lania Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1916-1959

Creator:

• Lania, Léo, 1896-1961

Call Number: U.S. Mss 27AF; PH 4932; M92-228

Quantity: 7.2 cubic feet (18 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 0.2 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder and 1 oversize folder); plus additions of 0.4 cubic feet

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of the journalist, propagandist, and writer Lazar Herrmann who worked under the pen name Léo 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, circa 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, German, French

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Léo 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 (circa 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 1920s, 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 1950s 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.

This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 2 parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.

• Part 1 (U.S. Mss 27AF, PH 4932): Original Collection, 1916-1959
• Part 2 (M92-228): Additions, 1923-1941, 1987-1988

Acquisition Information

Deposited by Frederick Herman, Norfolk, Virginia, September 6, 1968; presented by Herman, 1975-1977. Accession Number: MCHC 68-88, MCHC76-22, MCHC 76-55, MCHC76-80, MCHC77-37, M92-228

Processing Information

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

Reprocessed by Richard Bazillion (archives intern) and Joanne Hohler, October 1978.

U.S. Mss 27AF	Part 1 (U.S. Mss 27AF, PH 4932): Original Collection, 1916-1959 Physical Description: 7.2 cubic feet (18 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 0.2 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder and 1 oversize folder)  Scope and Content Note The Léo 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 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 1960s. 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-1930s 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.
	Series: Correspondence, circa 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 regarding 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, after 1946?
	Books
Box   17 Folder   5-10	Autobiography Note: See: Today We Are Brothers below.
Box   2 Folder   10	Bob -- manuscript draft, circa 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, undated
	Foreign Minister, The
Box   2 Folder   13	Outline, circa 1952-1956
Box   2 Folder   14	Correspondence with publishers, 1950 October 16-1959 February 5
Box   2 Folder   15	Mailing list, circa 1949-1956
Box   2 Folder   16	Play manuscript, circa 1957
Box   14 Folder   2	Scrapbook including correspondence, reviews, interviews, 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 regarding 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, circa 1944
Box   2 Folder   20	In the Shadow of the Titans -- prospectus for novel, undated
Box   2 Folder   21	Land of Promise -- book reviews, 1934-1949
Box   3 Folder   10	My Father and I Note: 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, undated
Box   13 Folder   8	Scrapbook including reviews, correspondence, lectures and interviews, circa 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, circa 1955
Box   3 Folder   8	Background notes and clippings, circa 1955
Box   3 Folder   9	Quest of Boris Borussov, The -- prospectus for novel, undated
	Schildkraut, Joseph -- biography, My Father and I
Box   3 Folder   10	Manuscript draft, 1957-1959
Box   4 Folder   1	Schildkraut's notes, circa 1957-1959
Box   4 Folder   2	Correspondence and notes, circa 1957-1959
Box   4 Folder   3	Book reviews, circa 1959
	Today We Are Brothers (autobiography) -- Conquer Fear: The Biography of the Lost Generation
Box   17 Folder   5-10	German manuscript version
Box   19	Scrapbook including reviews, interviews, lectures and correspondence, circa 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, 1945-1948
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, undated
Box   4 Folder   10	Cranes, The -- outline, correspondence with television executives, 1955-1956
Box   4 Folder   11	Cranes and Hearts, The [sic], undated
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, circa 1929
Box   4 Folder   15	Episode, The,undated
	God, King and Fatherland
Box   5 Folder   1	Manuscript draft, circa 1928
Box   14 Folder   1	Clippings and scrapbook, 1930
Box   5 Folder   2-3	Good Soldier Schweik, The -- manuscript drafts, undated
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, undated
Box   5 Folder   9	Long Night, The -- registration of copyright, 1958
Box   5 Folder   10	Murder of Dollfuss, The, undated
Box   5 Folder   11	Oil Field -- manuscript draft, 1934
Box   5 Folder   12	Prophecy, The or The Small Town on the Autobahn, undated
	Prosperity
Box   5 Folder   13	Manuscript draft, 1927
Box   14 Folder   1	Clippings in scrapbook
Box   6 Folder   1	Reserved Quarters -- manuscript draft, undated
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 regarding staging of English version
Box   6 Folder   8	Anonymous critical appraisal, undated
Box   6 Folder   9	Shura and Jimmy -- manuscript draft, undated
Box   6 Folder   10	Sightseeing or Going Places, undated
	Soul in Darkness
Box   6 Folder   11	Manuscript draft, undated
Box   6 Folder   12	Scene settings, undated
Box   6 Folder   13	Summer Dream, A -- German and English versions, undated
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, undated
Box   6 Folder   16	White Slave, The -- manuscript draft, 1938
	Woman Without Love, A
Box   6 Folder   17	Manuscript draft, circa 1933
Box   6 Folder   18	Story, circa 1933
Box   6 Folder   19	Character sketches, undated
Box   13 Folder   6	Miscellaneous play reviews
Box   13 Folder   2	Scrapbook including miscellaneous articles by Lania on European and American theater and literature, circa 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, undated
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, undated
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, undated
	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, circa 1956
Box   8 Folder   5	SOS Titanic -- outlines, 1937-1938, undated
Box   8 Folder   6	Strong Brothers -- scripts, 1938, undated
Box   8 Folder   7	Surrounded Hotel -- outlines, undated
Box   8 Folder   8-9	Ten Days to Die -- manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, circa 1950-1956
Box   8 Folder   10	Wonderful Trunk of Mr. O. F., The -- outline, undated
Box   8 Folder   11	You Don't Know the People Closest to You, undated
Box   8 Folder   12	Miscellaneous outlines and notes, undated
	Radio and Television
Box   9 Folder   1	“Gertie” -- scripts, undated
Box   9 Folder   2	“Goint Out With the Dogi” [sic] -- scripts, undated
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, circa 1950-1951
Box   9 Folder   7	Scripts, economic shows, circa 1951
Box   9 Folder   8	Radio Propaganda, circa 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,” undated
	Articles
Box   10 Folder   1	“Acquaintance with the Arbeiter-Zeitung,” 1961 August 13
Box   10 Folder   2	Aftermath of War -- articles and clippings, circa 1942
Box   10 Folder   3	“America Is Different” -- proposed series, undated
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,” undated
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, circa 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,” undated
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	circa 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,” circa 1945
Box   11 Folder   3	“Home of the Heavy Bombers” -- two drafts, circa 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, circa 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,” circa 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, circa 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,” circa 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, circa 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, undated
Box   11 Folder   29	Political warfare plans, circa 1953
Box   11 Folder   30	Postwar European literature -- articles, 1947 April 19-July 26
Box   11 Folder   31	“Pro and Con: An Exemplary Life,” undated
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, circa 1935-1936
Box   12 Folder   3	“Slaughterhouse in Omaha, The,” circa 1954
Box   12 Folder   4	“Sommerfest in Austria” / by Franz Hoellering, undated
Box   12 Folder   5	Soviet challenge and USA dilemma -- articles, notes, lecture, circa 1952
Box   12 Folder   6	“Story of the Unextinguished Moon, The” -- by Joseph Bornstein, incomplete, undated
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,” undated
Box   12 Folder   11	“Thursday Pieces,” “The Age of Discontent” -- outlines of three articles, undated
	United Nations World
Box   12 Folder   12-16	Articles, 1950 December-1953 Fall
Box   12 Folder   17	Correspondence regarding 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, circa 1942
Box   12 Folder   21	“What Makes an Orator?,” 1941 March 15
Box   12 Folder   22	“Where Are the Standards?,” undated
Box   12 Folder   23	“Where Do We Go From Here? America's Challenge and Opportunity,” circa 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, undated
Box   13 Folder   5-6	Miscellaneous articles
Box   14 Folder   3	Miscellaneous articles -- political and world affairs
	Series: Biographical Materials	⇧
Box   14 Folder   4	Articles, publishers' blurbs, press club biography, circa 1936-1959
Box   14 Folder   5	Autobiographical and bibliographical information
Box   14 Folder   6	Immigration and naturalization, 1939 December 4-1950 December 18
Box   14 Folder   7	Passports, 1946-1956
Box   14 Folder   8	Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany -- Lania's grant application, 1959
Box   14 Folder   9	Professional membership -- Protective Association of German Language Writers, undated
Box   14 Folder   10	Sixty-fifth birthday greetings, 1961
Box   14 Folder   11	Death of Lania -- attempt to secure a “grave of honor” in Vienna, 1961-1962
PH 4932	Formal and informal photographs of Léo Lania, circa 1920-1956
PH 4932 (3)	Oversize photographs
U.S. Mss 27AF	Series: Family Papers	⇧
	Papers of Maria Herman-Lania
Box   18 Folder   1	General correspondence, 1961-1973
Box   18 Folder   2	Correspondence with Kindler Verlag regarding 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,” undated
M92-228	Part 2 (M92-228): Additions, 1923-1941, 1987-1988 Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)  Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1923-1941, 1987-1988, consisting of books and journal pieces by Lania; a 1940 datebook/diary; and recent letters to Lania's son, Frederick Herman, concerning Lania's work.	⇧
Box   1	Indeta, Die Fabrik der Nachrighten. Berlin: Verlag Die Schmiede, 1927
Box   1	Der Tanz ins Dunkel: Anita Berber. Berlin: Adalbert Schultz Verlag, 1929
Box   1	The Darkest Hour: Adventures and Escapes by Léo Lania. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941
Box   1 Folder   1	Gott, König und Vaterland, or, Die Freihiet der Nation. Berlin: Felix Bloxh Erben verlag, circa 1928
Box   1 Folder   2	Miscellaneous articles by Lania: photocopies, 1923-1930
Box   1 Folder   3	“An der Ruhr Front” Die Weltbuhne. XIX Jahrgang, 25 Januar 1923, Nummer 4, page 94-97
Box   1 Folder   4	Die Totengraber Deutschlands: Das Urteiler im Hitler Prozess. Berlin: Neuen Deutschen Verlag, 1924
Box   1 Folder   5	Gewehre auf Reisen: Bilder aus Deutscher Gegenwart. Berlin: Der Malik-Verlag, 1924
Box   1 Folder   6	Der Hitler-Ludendorff-Prozess. Berlin: Verlag Die Schmiede, 1925
Box   1 Folder   7	Brulle China! Sieben Bilder/ S. Tretiakow; Frei bearbeitet von Léo Lania. Berlin: I.Ladyschinkow Verlag G.M.B.H., 1929 Note: S. Tretiakow is Russian writer Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov.
Box   1 Folder   8	Datebook/diary, 1940 Note: Lania gives a French address on the first page. Includes five unidentified photo booth-style portraits.
Box   1 Folder   9	Letters to Frederic Hermann regarding his father Lazar Hermann/Léo Lanias