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

from wagner.sarah35

Like most familiar with the narrative of the Second World War, I knew that the Nazis had gone on the warpath through Europe, plundering and rounding up Jews to be sent to concentration camps. I also knew about the book burnings they sponsored in their war against all ideologies but their own. I d...

from dono421846

Rydell describes in engaging detail the massive displacement of Europe's book collections by the Nazis--the who, the why, and the where. Unlike the attention given to dramatic repatriation of stolen art treasures, the fate of books, many of which are worth less than the postage to return them to ...

from CheryleFisher

A NON-FICTION BOOK TRACING SOME OF THE LITERATURE AND ART THAT WAS STOLEN FROM JEWS DURING WWII AND IS NOW BEING RESTORED TO FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO WERE THE ORIGINAL OWNERS.

from mcdenis

This is a compelling narrative of the National Socialist Party under Hitler devastating plunder and destruction of Jewish ( and other ) libraries both individual, institutional in an attempt to wipe out and reformat more than 400 years of Jewish culture and identity. Hitler's teams went throughou...

from EricCostello

A new angle on an oft-reported story. There are other books that look at the masses of artworks stolen by the Nazi regime and its allies, but this book focuses on the millions upon millions of books stolen by the Nazi regime. The rationales (such as they were) behind these thefts, the process by ...