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The book thieves : the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance / Anders Rydell ; translated by Henning Koch

This account examines the organised looting of European libraries by the Nazi regime to wage intellectual warfare. It traces the history of these stolen collections and the contemporary efforts to return volumes to the families of their original owners.
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