Tuesday, January 15, 2019

They didn't just ban books …

… they also stole them: The Hunt for the Nazi Loot Still Sitting on Library Shelves. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Given the scope of the looting, the task ahead remains mountainous. In Berlin, for example, at the Central and Regional Library, almost a third of the 3.5 million books are suspected to have been looted by the Nazis, according to Sebastian Finsterwalder, a provenance researcher there.

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