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Emil Lehman was born Emil Sprinzeles (later Emil Lehmann) in Mattersburg on 6 August 1907 into a Jewish family. He completed studies in literature, history, and education and earned a doctorate in history and literature, worked as an official of the Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde), and from 1934 taught Jewish religion at a Gymnasium in Vienna. After the Anschluss he fled with his siblings to London, where according to Army records he ran a children's hospital, and in December 1939 he emigrated to the United States. In New York City he worked as a scholarly writer, editor, and executive secretary for Jewish organizations.

Lehman was drafted in February 1941 and first served for eight months as a clerk (librarian) in a service command. By February 1943 he had gone through Camp Upton, New York, to basic training with the 82nd Combat Engineer Battalion and with Company B of the 291st Combat Engineer Battalion at Camp Swift, Texas. In September 1943 he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, where he trained as a prisoner-of-war interrogator and graduated with [[:Category:Class 13|Class 13]] (IPW 5C, German; certificate 4719), rated a typist-linguist. At the turn of 1944 he was assigned there to the combat propaganda unit of the 2nd Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company and took a propaganda course at Camp Sharpe, Pennsylvania.

Lehman was drafted in February 1941 and first served for eight months as a clerk (librarian) in a service command. By February 1943 he had gone through Camp Upton, New York, to basic training with the 82nd Combat Engineer Battalion and with Company B of the 291st Combat Engineer Battalion at Camp Swift, Texas. In September 1943 he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, where he trained as a prisoner-of-war interrogator and graduated with [[:Category:Class 13|Class 13]] (IPW 5C, German; certificate 4719), rated a typist-linguist. At the turn of 1944 he was assigned there to the combat propaganda unit of the 2nd Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company and took a propaganda course at [[Camp Sharpe]], Pennsylvania.

In April 1944 Lehman sailed for Europe and took an advanced propaganda course at the Psychological Warfare School in Brondesbury Park near London. With the 2nd MRBC, from the summer of 1944 under the Publicity and Psychological Warfare Section of the 12th Army Group, he served as a radio writer and as an interrogator for propaganda intelligence in France (field radio at Lorient and with the Ninth U.S. Army), Belgium, Luxembourg (probably at Radio Luxembourg), and Germany. At the end of the war he worked in the radio studio of the 6870th District Information Services Control Command in culture and media control. His last known rank was technician third grade, and he was probably discharged after the war. He died on 15 February 1999, probably in Milton, Wisconsin.

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 Emil Lehman was born Emil Sprinzeles (later Emil Lehmann) in Mattersburg on 6 August 1907 into a Jewish family. He completed studies in literature, history, and education and earned a doctorate in history and literature, worked as an official of the Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde), and from 1934 taught Jewish religion at a Gymnasium in Vienna. After the Anschluss he fled with his siblings to London, where according to Army records he ran a children's hospital, and in December 1939 he emigrated to the United States. In New York City he worked as a scholarly writer, editor, and executive secretary for Jewish organizations.
-Lehman was drafted in February 1941 and first served for eight months as a clerk (librarian) in a service command. By February 1943 he had gone through Camp Upton, New York, to basic training with the 82nd Combat Engineer Battalion and with Company B of the 291st Combat Engineer Battalion at Camp Swift, Texas. In September 1943 he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, where he trained as a prisoner-of-war interrogator and graduated with [[:Category:Class 13|Class 13]] (IPW 5C, German; certificate 4719), rated a typist-linguist. At the turn of 1944 he was assigned there to the combat propaganda unit of the 2nd Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company and took a propaganda course at Camp Sharpe, Pennsylvania.
+Lehman was drafted in February 1941 and first served for eight months as a clerk (librarian) in a service command. By February 1943 he had gone through Camp Upton, New York, to basic training with the 82nd Combat Engineer Battalion and with Company B of the 291st Combat Engineer Battalion at Camp Swift, Texas. In September 1943 he was transferred to the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie, where he trained as a prisoner-of-war interrogator and graduated with [[:Category:Class 13|Class 13]] (IPW 5C, German; certificate 4719), rated a typist-linguist. At the turn of 1944 he was assigned there to the combat propaganda unit of the 2nd Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company and took a propaganda course at [[Camp Sharpe]], Pennsylvania.
 In April 1944 Lehman sailed for Europe and took an advanced propaganda course at the Psychological Warfare School in Brondesbury Park near London. With the 2nd MRBC, from the summer of 1944 under the Publicity and Psychological Warfare Section of the 12th Army Group, he served as a radio writer and as an interrogator for propaganda intelligence in France (field radio at Lorient and with the Ninth U.S. Army), Belgium, Luxembourg (probably at Radio Luxembourg), and Germany. At the end of the war he worked in the radio studio of the 6870th District Information Services Control Command in culture and media control. His last known rank was technician third grade, and he was probably discharged after the war. He died on 15 February 1999, probably in Milton, Wisconsin.