BRACERS Record Detail for 68618
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BR summarizes a letter he has received from Ottomar Wichmann who was a professor of philosophy and is in the American quarter of Berlin. For Wichmann's original letter see record 3562.
BR wants to know whether anything can be done to alleviate Wichmann's hardship.
BR TO UNKNOWN, [OCT. 1946]
BRACERS 68618. TL(CAR). McMaster
Proofread by K. Blackwell
Ottomar Wichmann, who has been Professor of Philosophy at Halle, Berlin and Vienna, is now in the American quarter of Berlin, and writes to me to say that he is suffering great hardship. He is fifty-six and attempting manual labour, for which he says his strength is inadequate. He says that after ten hours daily work he has to work in garden and field to get potatoes and turnips for his family. After 8 o’clock in the evening he tries to continue his philosophical work.
He says that he and his family completely lack fats, sugar, meal, beans, peas, rice, tea and coffee, also shoes and woollen stockings.
I do not know the legal situation in regard to the American zone, and I should be glad to find out whether anything can be done. His address is:
Herr Professor Ottomar Wichmann,
p. Adr. Frau Dora Jordan,
Amerikanischer Sektor,
Mozartstrasse, 22,
Haus Gottestrue,
Berlin Lichtenrade,
Germany.
I am enclosing his letter.
