File Folder 1 - Reichmann, Felix

Thin (3/16”) folder. Felix Reichmann (1999-1987) was born, reared and educated in Austria, where he became a bookseller as his parents were. In the late 1930s the Nazi regime interned him in concentration camps, but he managed to win a release and emigrate to the United States. There he worked in Landis Valley Museum in Lancaster County Pennsylvania then got further education in 1942 and “joined the Carl Schurz Foundation in Philadelphia as librarian. He became an American citizen in 1944, joined the Army and was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D. C. After the German defeat, Reichmann was appointed as Chief of the Publications Control Branch for the U.S. military zone. Among his responsibilities was the re-organization of the German book trade....” --information and quotation from “Felix Reichmann (1899-1987): Scholar, bookseller and librarian in Europe and the United States”, on line at https://www.univie.ac.at/geschichtegesichtet/data/Edelman.pdf