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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Rydell, Anders, 1982-     Subjects     Book thefts -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.     Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.     Libraries and national socialism.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Europe.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rydell, Anders, 1982-       by title:      The book thieves : t...      Boktjuvarna. English...       by call number:      027.04 R992b     Search the Web     Rydell, Anders, 1982-     Book thefts -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.     Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.     Libraries and national socialism.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Europe.       MARC Display

The book thieves : the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance / Anders Rydell ; translated by Henning Koch. by Rydell, Anders, 1982- Viking, 2017. Call #: 027.04 R992b Subjects Book thefts -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.   Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.   Libraries and national socialism.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Europe. ISBN:  9780735221222 (hc.) Uniform title:  Boktjuvarna. English Description:  xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Notes:  Originally published: Stockholm : Norstedts, 2015 under the title Boktjuvarna : jakten på de försvunna biblioteken. Translated from the Swedish. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-336) and index. Contents:  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 finds its way home: Berlin-Cannock. Summary:  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 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. 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. Other authors:  Koch, Henning. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 027.04 R992b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 027.04 R992b Adult books Trace Add Copy to MyList

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