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Book history --- 024.8 --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint

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Book burning is one of the taboos of modernity, due in part to its association with the Nazi book fires. This event provides the focus for a study of the broader history of destroying a book by fire, arguing for a more complex and nuanced understanding of the uses of book burning in the literary culture of the twentieth-century.

Book history --- 024.8 --- 098.1 --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Verboden boeken --- Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- Book burning --- History. --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- 098.1 Verboden boeken --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Books --- Burning of books --- Censorship --- History --- Burning --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers).

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'A most valuable book.'—Christian Science MonitorFor readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis'systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners. 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 extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves—Anders Rydell tells the untold 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. Now, 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.

Book history --- History of Europe --- looting --- book history --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- 024.8 --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- E-books --- looting [social issue]

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A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the widespread looting of libraries in post-war Iraq, the leveling of the Library of Alexandria, book burnings by Crusaders and Nazis, and censorship against authors past and present. With diligence and grace, Báez mounts a compelling investigation into the motives behind the destruction of books, reading man's violence against writing as a perverse anti-creation. His findings ultimately attest to the lasting power of books as the great human repository of knowledge and memory, fragile yet vital bulwarks against the intransigence and barbarity of every age.--From publisher description.

Book history --- Libraries --- Censorship --- Prohibited books --- Destruction and pillage --- History. --- 02 <09> --- 024.8 --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- 02 <09> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- Libraries and state --- Banned books --- Bibliography --- Books, Prohibited --- Censorship of the press --- Children's literature --- Condemned books --- Press --- Books and reading --- Illegal libraries --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- State and libraries --- Cultural policy --- History --- Destruction and pillage&delete& --- Government policy --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Bibliothèques --- Censure --- Livres prohibés --- Irak --- Destruction et pillage --- Histoire

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Book destruction has often been carried out by authoritarian regimes, but dictatorial governments are not the only perpetrators. Extremists - through terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other forms of mass violence - are also responsible for widespread cultural destruction, as Knuth demonstrates in this new book. Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalise excess, the decimation of the world's libraries has occurred throughout the 20th century, and there is no end in sight. Cultural destruction is, therefore, of increasing concern to the library community, educators, human rights and civil rights activists, and concerned citizens. Part I of the work is devoted to struggles by extremists over voice and power at the local level; in these, destruction of books and libraries was employed as a tactic of political or ethnic protest. Part II discusses the aftermath of power struggles in Germany, Afghanistan, and Cambodia: the winners were utopians who purged libraries in efforts to purify their societies and maintain power. Part III examines the fate of libraries when there is war and power vacuum. The book concludes with a discussion of the events in Iraq in 2003, and the degree of responsibility of American war strategists for the widespread pillaging that ensued after the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

Book history --- History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Libraries --- Book burning --- Radicalism --- Cultural property. --- Bibliothèques --- Autodafé de livres --- Radicalisme --- Biens culturels --- Destruction and pillage --- History --- Destruction et pillage --- Histoire --- 355.018 --- 02 "19" --- Gevolgen van de oorlog. Oorlogsschade --- Bibliotheekwezen--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 02 "19" Bibliotheekwezen--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 355.018 Gevolgen van de oorlog. Oorlogsschade --- Bibliothèques --- Autodafé de livres --- 024.8 --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers).