Как нацисты грабили европейские библиотеки и как литературное наследие было возвращено домой. (Немцы в музее)

10 maia 1933 goda vo mnozhestve gorodov Ministerstvo propagandy fashistskoĭ Germanii ustroilo pokazatelʹnoe sozhzhenie knig, organizovannoe v ramkakh aktsii «protiv negermanskogo dukha». V khode aktsii studentami, professorami i mestnymi rukovoditeliami natsistskoĭ partii byli sozhzheny desiatki tysiach knig, avtory kotorykh presledovalisʹ fashistskoĭ Germanieĭ. Odnako ėta istoriia o drugom. Ėto istoriia o sistematicheskom razgrablenii natsistami evropeĭskikh bibliotek i nebolʹshoĭ komande bibliotekareĭ, trudiashchikhsia nad vozvrashcheniem ukradennykh knig ikh zakonnym vladelʹtsam. Knigi, okazavshiesia v rukakh natsistskikh soldat posle ogrableniĭ evropeĭskikh bibliotek i knizhnykh magazinov, ne byli sozhzheny. Vmesto ėtogo natsisty nachali sobiratʹ sobstvennuiu biblioteku, kotoruiu mozhno bylo by ispolʹzovatʹ dlia vedeniia intellektualʹnoĭ voĭny s mirovoĭ literaturoĭ i istorieĭ. V ėtoĭ sekretnoĭ voĭne biblioteki evreev, kommunistov, liberalʹnykh politikov, aktivistov LGBT, katolikov i mnogikh drugikh opalʹnykh grupp naseleniia byli prisvoeny dlia natsistskikh issledovaniĭ i ispolʹzovalisʹ kak intellektualʹnoe oruzhie protiv ikh zhe vladelʹtsev. No kogda voĭna zakonchilasʹ, bolʹshaia chastʹ knig tak i ne byla naĭdena. V knige, kotoruiu vy derzhite v rukakh, pokazany istoriia obnaruzheniia i vozvrashcheniia evropeĭskogo kulʹturnogo naslediia iz plena istorii i rolʹ knigi dlia kulʹtury, okazavsheĭsia pod ugrozoĭ unichtozheniia.

May 10, 1933 in many cities the Ministry of propaganda of Nazi Germany staged a show burning of books, organized in the framework of the action " against the non-German spirit." During the action, students, professors and local leaders of the Nazi party burned tens of thousands of books, the authors of which were persecuted by Nazi Germany. However, this story is about something else. This is a story about the systematic looting by the Nazis of European libraries and a small team of librarians working on the return of stolen books to their rightful owners. Books that were in the hands of Nazi soldiers after the robberies of European libraries and bookstores were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to build their own library, which could be used to wage an intellectual war with world literature and history. In this secret war, libraries of Jews, Communists, liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics and many other disgraced groups were appropriated for Nazi research and used as intellectual weapons against their own owners. But when the war ended, most of the books were never found. The book you are holding shows the history of the discovery and return of European cultural heritage from the captivity of history and the role of the book for a culture threatened with destruction.