Posts Tagged ‘nazis’
From the Archives: Book thieves
Every time I write a book I reach the point where I am so deep in the work that I have to stop writing blog posts and newsletters. I always hope to avoid it. That somehow I’ll be smarter, or faster, or more organized, or just more. This time I’ve managed to avoid hitting the…
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Hitler’s “Anti-Lie Bureau”
From the Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1932: The Fascist chieftain has been forced to establish an “anti-lie bureau” to issue daily answers to his opposition’s accusations that his movement is illegal, following a series of sensational raids on Nazi headquarters in Prussia and the publication of the Bavarian and Hessian governments of seized documents…
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The Book Thieves
Ceremonial book burnings and the theft of precious art works are well-known elements of Nazi Germany’s rampage through Europe. In The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance, Swedish journalist Anders Rydell tells the less familiar story of how two Nazi agencies—the intelligence wing of the…
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