TY - JOUR
AU - Dov Schidorksy
AB - <p>The Reich Security Main Office of Germany's Third Reich, created in 1939, became one of the more significant agents of the looting of Jewish public and private library collections under the Nazi regime. The staff of the agency's library, which included SS men, were directly involved in creating the looting policy, in carrying out the looting itself, and in making decisions concerning the fate of the looted material. Research regarding the Reich's Jewish policy was conducted on the basis of these confiscated collections and ultimately contributed to the legitimization of the expulsion and extermination of the Jews.</p>
BT - Libraries & the Cultural Record
IS - 1
LA - English
N1 - <p>Sections:</p><ul><li>Toward a Central Library of Looted Collections</li><li>The Assignment of Forced Laborers</li><li>Personnel</li><li>Evacuation of the Library and Its Treatment at the Hands of the Allies, 1943-45</li><li>Conclusion</li></ul>
N2 - <p>The Reich Security Main Office of Germany's Third Reich, created in 1939, became one of the more significant agents of the looting of Jewish public and private library collections under the Nazi regime. The staff of the agency's library, which included SS men, were directly involved in creating the looting policy, in carrying out the looting itself, and in making decisions concerning the fate of the looted material. Research regarding the Reich's Jewish policy was conducted on the basis of these confiscated collections and ultimately contributed to the legitimization of the expulsion and extermination of the Jews.</p>
PY - 2007
SP - 21
EP - 47
T2 - Libraries & the Cultural Record
TI - The Library of the Reich Security Main Office and its Looted Jewish Book Collection
VL - 42
ER -