The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance

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When Nazi "soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own that they could use to wage an intellectual war ... In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, Communists, liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons, and many other opposition groups were appropriated for Nazi research, and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners ... Rydell finds himself entrusted with one of these stolen volumes, setting out to return it to its rightful owner. It was passed to him by the small team of heroic librarians who have begun the monumental task of combing through Berlin's public libraries to identify the looted books and reunite them with the families of their original owners"--Amazon.com.

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  The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and...

  • 2018-02-06
  • 368 pages
  • Paperback
  • Penguin

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