LEADER 04042cam a2200469Ii 4500001 256504 005 20240621230912.0 008 170130s2017 nyua b 001 0beng d 020 9780735221222 |q(hardcover) 020 0735221227 |q(hardcover) 035 (OCoLC)ocn970663324 035 256504 049 LHMA 041 1 eng |hswe 040 IG$ |beng |erda |cIG$ |dOCLCO |dON8 |dIK2 |dJQM |dBTCTA |dOCLCA |dYDX |dOQX |dFM0 |dTXDRI |dOCLCF |dILC |dVP@ |dNDS |dYYP |dLHM 050 14 Z702 |b.R93 2017 050 14 D810.L53 |bR94413 2017 100 1 Rydell, Anders, |d1982- |eauthor. 240 10 Boktjuvarna. |lEnglish 245 14 The book thieves : |bthe Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance / |cAnders Rydell ; translated by Henning Koch. 264 1 New York, New York : |bViking, |c[2017] 264 4 |c©2017 300 xiii, 352 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-336) and index. 505 0 A fire that consumes the world: Berlin -- Ghosts at Berliner Stadtbibliothek: Berlin -- Goethe's oak: Weimar -- Himmler's library: Munich -- A warrior against Jerusalem: Chiemsee -- Consolation for the tribulations of Israel: Amsterdam -- The hunt for the secrets of the Freemasons: The Hague -- Lenin worked here: Paris -- The lost library: Rome -- Fragments of a people: Thessaloniki -- The mass grave Is a paper mill: Vilnius -- The Talmud unit: Theresienstadt -- "Jewish studies without Jews": Ratibor--Frankfurt -- A wagon of shoes: Prague -- A book ends its way home: Berlin--Cannock. 520 While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves -- Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the 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 on literature and history. 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. But when the war was over, most of the books were never returned. Instead many found their way into the public library system, where they remain to this day. Now, 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. For those who lost relatives in the Holocaust, these books are often the only remaining possession of their relatives they have ever held. And as Rydell travels to return the volume he was given, he shows just how much a single book can mean to those who own it. 546 Translated from the Swedish. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Rydell, Anders, |d1982- 650 0 Book thefts |zEurope |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Libraries and national socialism |zEurope. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xDestruction and pillage |zEurope. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xConfiscations and contributions |zEurope. 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 700 1 Koch, Henning, |d1962- |etranslator. 852 0 |bstacks |hD810.L53 |iR94413 2017 852 0 |bscstacks |hD810.L53 |iR94413 2017 |tc.2