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The Book Thieves

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by Anders Rydell

Forschungsabteilung Judenfrage (Research Department for the Jewish Question), 13, 233–35

  France:

  Dreyfus affair in, 127, 136

  émigré libraries in, 141–54, 262

  Freemasons in, 129–30

  Jews with citizens’ rights in, 42, 135–36, 163

  Normandy invasion, 231, 246–47, 268

  property confiscated in, 32, 107, 134–41, 139, 209, 229, 271–72

  Franco, Francisco, 102, 128

  Frank, Adolf, 235

  Frank, Anne, 27

  Frank, Hans, 248

  Frank, Walter, 13, 60, 182, 240

  Frankfurt institute, see Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage

  Franz Ferdinand, assassination of, 122–23, 127, 219

  Frederick, Prince, 120

  Frederick the Great, 129

  free corps writers, 47–48, 49, 63, 90

  Freemasons, 119–33, 288

  Charter van Keulen (Cologne Charter), 132

  conspiracy theories about, 122–24, 126–28, 237

  golden hammer of, 132

  and humanism, 128

  as ideological enemies, x, 23, 30, 51, 104, 106, 114, 120–22, 129, 203–4, 237

  and Illuminati, 131, 225

  mythology of, 126

  persecution of, 36, 121, 128, 131

  property confiscated from, 22, 31, 32, 60, 69, 125, 129–30, 132, 202, 225, 297

  RSHA research on, 242–44

  Freikorps (free corps), 44

  French Enlightenment, 46, 98

  French Revolution, 42, 126, 131, 135, 163

  Frenzel, Elisabeth, 235

  Freud, Sigmund, 5, 11, 193

  Frick, Wilhelm, 49, 50

  Friedman, Philip, 140

  Führer Gives a City to the Jews, The (film), 221

  Fürth, Jaro, 220

  Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 247

  Galerius, Emperor, 173

  German expressionism, 45, 48, 75

  German idealism, 41

  German romanticism, 41, 46, 48

  Germany:

  abdication of the kaiser, 44

  Allied bombing of, 224–25

  culture in, 242

  extreme right in, 46–48, 50, 64, 77

  and Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939), 193–94

  revolution (1918) in, 44, 80, 123

  science in, 86–87, 90–91

  Soviet plundering of books from, 261–63, 298

  war with Soviet Union, 129, 152, 205–6, 208, 214, 248–49

  world conquest as goal of, 13, 78, 83, 152, 206

  Gerron, Kurt, 221

  Gestapo, 30, 65, 68, 104, 108, 208

  Gide, André, 138, 231

  Giesler, Hermann, 72, 91

  Gobineau, Arthur de, 79, 240

  Goebbels, Joseph, 2, 6–7, 10, 21, 89, 235, 240, 245, 247, 248

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 7, 9, 35, 40–43, 55, 78

  and Anna Amalia Library, 52

  Faust, 37

  as Freemason, 129

  as Illuminati member, 131

  as national poet, 43

  Nazification of, 50–52, 53–54

  statue of, 40, 42–43

  “The Wanderer’s Night Song,” 37

  Goethe and Schiller Archive, 51, 54, 55–56

  Goethe Association, 51

  “Goethe-Eiche” (Goethe’s oak), 37–40, 41

  Goethe Museum, Weimar, 51

  Goldschmidt, Arthur, 55–56, 57, 58

  Goldschmidt, Elijah Jacob, 208, 209

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 296

  Göring, Hermann, 89, 121, 201, 283

  and Gestapo, 65

  recipient of plundered art, x, 21, 107, 108

  suicide of, 284

  Gorky, Maksim, 213

  Görtsch, Werner, 243

  Gotthardt, Hermann, 208, 209

  Grade, Chaim, 192

  Granada, Jews massacred in, 112

  Grand Lodge of England, 126

  Grand Orient of France, 130

  Grau, Wilhelm, 107, 239, 284

  Great Synagogue, Warsaw, 68, 198, 199

  Greece:

  ELAS resistance movement, 185

  Jewish property recovery denied in, 187

  Nazi plundering in, 182, 229

  Saloníki ceded to, 181

  “the Jewish question” in, 184, 235

  Gregory IX, Pope, 161

  Grimm, Hans, 9, 48

  Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy, 141, 227, 245, 263, 306

  Grootoosten der Nederlanden, 120, 129, 132, 271, 301

  Gropius, Walter, 45, 50

  Grothe, Hugo, 229

  Grothe, Walter, 106–7

  Grumach, Ernst, 225–26

  Günther, Hans F. K., 50, 235

  Gurlitt, Cornelius, 29

  Gutenberg Bibles, 52, 150–51, 195, 263

  Hagemeyer, Hans, 246–47, 248

  Haim Habib, Rabbi Haham, 183–84

  Hanseatic League, 78

  Hartmann, Uwe, 29, 31–34

  Haufe, Rüdiger, 55, 56, 58

  Haus der Deutschen Kunst, 59

  Hebrew language, 190, 209, 279

  Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 276

  Hegel, Friedrich, 41, 43

  Heidegger, Martin, 86

  Heine, Heinrich, 1, 234

  Herder, Johann Gottfried, 41, 43

  Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 300

  Herrenchiemsee, 71–72

  Herrmann, Wolfgang, 4, 5, 10

  Hertling, Georg von, 291–96, 309, 312

  Hertz, Gustav, 86

  Herzl, Theodor, 213

  Herz-Sommer, Alice, 220

  Hexenkartothek (witchcraft research), 244–45

  Heydrich, Reinhard, 108, 128, 243, 283

  Heyse, Paul, 86

  Himbler, Margareth, 244

  Himmler, Heinrich, 35, 89, 184, 248

  and Bayerische Politische Polizei, 61, 62

  and Buchenwald, 37, 40

  and ghettos, 214–17

  occultism as interest of, 68, 73, 121, 128, 225, 242–46

  and Operation Barbarossa, 199, 201

  and RSHA, 22, 30, 68, 73, 242, 244

  as SS head, x, 63, 64–65, 68, 69, 108, 201–2, 283

  suicide of, 267

  Hindenburg, Paul von, 3

  Hirschel, Louis, 99, 114, 118, 270

  Hirschfeld, Magnus, 6, 9

  Hitler, Adolf, 19, 66, 71, 265, 266

  anti-Semitism of, 81–82, 238, 239, 246, 247

  and Beer Hall Putsch, 123

  cult of, 3, 21, 51–52, 74–75, 88, 91, 199, 282

  and Hohe Schule, 73, 89, 91

  Mein Kampf, 8, 63, 80, 82, 83, 87

  and Munich Accord, 109

  opponents of, 65, 184, 201–2, 309

  recipient of plundered art, x, 59, 107

  rise to power, 81, 308

  and Rosenberg, 76, 80, 82, 108, 200–201, 202, 248, 266–67

  and Soviet Union, 194, 249

  and SS, 64, 65

  Hohe Schule der NSDAP, 203

  plans for, 72–73, 89, 91–92, 104, 105–6, 133, 202, 233, 235, 282

  research institutes, 233–34, 248

  Zentralbibliothek, 227–30, 271

  Holocaust, 13, 145, 176, 247, 258, 277

  book burnings as symbolic of, 11, 265

  ideological justification for, 211, 239–40

  and Nuremberg trials, 268

  plans for, 233, 283

  records kept of, 212

  remembering, xii, 2, 240–42, 290, 307

  survivors of, xi–xii, 27, 99, 187, 212, 254, 257, 270, 2
76, 294

  homosexuals, 23, 36

  Hoogewoud, Frits J., 110, 113, 115

  Hörisch, Jochen, 235

  House of Wisdom, Baghdad, 111

  Hungary, German occupation of, 239

  Husseini, Haj Amin al-, 247

  IISG (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis), 100–101, 108, 109, 114, 137, 230, 263, 270–71

  Illuminati, 126, 130–31, 225

  Innocent III, Pope, 160

  Inquisition, 36, 97, 112, 161–64

  Institut d’Etudes des Questions Juives (Institute for Studies on the Jewish Question), 247–48

  Institute for Jewish Culture, see YIVO

  Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Studies), 5–6, 12, 67

  Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage (Institute for Research on the Jewish Question), 105, 115, 134, 137, 139, 140, 161, 168, 182, 209, 227–30, 232–36, 238, 241, 247–48, 250, 270, 274, 284

  intellectuals, 6–8, 12–13, 225–26

  Intelligenzaktion, 196

  Israel:

  books sent to, 254, 257, 273, 276

  cultural identity of, 277

  Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Vienna, 67, 256

  Istanbul, first book printed in, 97

  Italian Renaissance, 179

  Italy:

  Allied invasion of, 268

  Jews in, 158–72

  property confiscated in, 209, 229, 272

  resistance to Nazis in, 184

  Ivan IV, Tsar, 145

  Jagor, Fedor, 18–19

  January Uprising (1919), 44–45

  Jehovah’s Witnesses, 23, 36

  Jesuiter, Max, 199

  Jesuit order, 69, 124

  Jeu de Paume, Paris, 134–35

  Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR), 254, 276

  Jewish Diaspora, 160

  Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), 98

  Jewish Museum, Prague, 251–60

  Jewish Museum, Saloníki, 176

  Jewish Pale of Settlement, 189

  Jewish Theological Seminary, Breslau, 67

  Jewish Theological Seminary, Lublin, 197

  Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, 171

  Jews:

  in Al-Andalus, 110–12

  “artificial” (künstlicher Jude), 124, 127

  Ashkenazi, 94, 114, 189–90, 192

  assimilation of, 190

  cemeteries desecrated, 174, 175, 176, 183

  citizenship for, 42, 135–36, 163

  confiscated property of, 19, 27, 30–31, 55–56, 60, 67, 106, 115–16, 138, 140–41, 158, 165–68, 183–84, 202, 241, 258

  conspiracy theories about, 73, 77–81, 102, 104, 115, 122–23, 124, 127–28, 234–35, 236–38, 246, 248, 283

  conversos, 110, 112, 162

  and Damascus affair, 135

  education systems of, 135–36, 179

  and Elders of Zion, 77–78

  extermination of, 118, 134, 145, 198, 208–9, 223, 238–41, 277

  flight of, 55, 56, 138, 182

  Hasidism, 191

  Hebrew and Yiddish language, 69

  as ideological enemies, x, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7–8, 23, 47, 50, 68, 69, 85, 104, 121, 129, 196, 241

  international conference on, 246–48

  and Kristallnacht, 67, 309, 311

  literature of, 97, 161–65

  medical experiments on, 186

  and memory, 241–42

  and Nazi anti-Semitism, 13, 42, 48, 50–51, 53, 64, 80–87

  and Nuremberg Laws, 166

  persecution of, 2, 8, 11, 67, 77, 112, 113, 121, 135, 145, 160–64, 170, 186, 191, 275–76

  private libraries of, 6, 19, 55, 98–99, 110, 113–17, 182–83

  scholastic culture of, 111, 189, 251, 270, 277, 280

  and science, 86–87

  sent to death camps, 36, 67, 114, 117, 118, 138, 184–87, 198, 209, 214–16, 220, 221–22, 223–24, 239, 252, 290–91, 294

  Sephardic, 94, 96, 97, 109–18, 158–64, 169, 178–82, 183, 284

  slave library workers, 69, 209, 210–14, 222, 223, 225–26, 288

  and Tanakh (Bible), 156, 157

  and “The Jewish Question,” 105, 136, 166, 234, 238–40

  and world banking, 138, 292

  yellow star worn by, 160, 184

  Zionists, 102, 116, 135, 180, 190, 254

  Joelsohn, Rudi, 15, 19

  Johst, Hanns, 7, 49

  Joseph II, emperor of Austria, 219

  Judas Maccabeus, 159

  Judea, conquest of, 159–60

  Jung, Guido, 166

  Kaczerginski, Shmerke, 215, 216–17, 278–80

  Kadima library, Saloníki, 181

  Kafka, Franz, 223, 251

  Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser’s Battle), 44

  Kalmanovitj, Zelig, 211, 214, 216

  Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 243, 246, 283, 284

  Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur (Militant League for German Culture), 50, 51, 54

  “Kampflied der Nationalsozialisten” (Nazi battle song), 9

  Kandinsky, Wassily, 50, 300

  Kaplan, Chaim, 242

  Kaplan, Hélène, 141–45, 149, 150, 152–54

  Kappler, Herbert, 167, 170

  Karamzin, Nikolay, 145

  Karl-Marx-Haus Trier, 18

  Katz, Robert, Black Sabbath, 164

  Keitel, Wilhelm, 284

  Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam, 100, 104, 107–9

  Kellenbenz, Hermann, 182, 284

  Keller, Helen, 11

  Kellner, Stephan, 59–60, 62–63, 71

  Kertész, Imre, 36

  Kiev Monastery of the Caves, 230

  Kircheisen, Friedrich Max, 229

  Klassik Stiftung Weimar, 52, 53, 54

  Klee, Paul, 50

  Klimt, Gustav, 294–95

  Kloss, Georg, 120, 132

  Knights Templar, 120

  Knoche, Michael, 52, 54, 58

  Knorring, Nikolai, 148, 150

  Kobrak, Charlotte, 294, 307–8

  Kobrak, Käthe, 308–9, 311–12

  Kobrak, Richard, ix, 16, 291–96, 293, 305, 306–12

  Koch, Erich, 201, 266

  Kortezs, Zvi, 183

  Kotljarevskaja, Marija, 150

  Krasiński, Zygmunt, 142

  Krebs, Friedrich, 232

  Krieck, Ernst, 86

  Kristallnacht (1938), 67, 309, 311

  Krokowski, Heike, 55, 58

  Kronfeld, Arthur, 6

  Kropotkin, Peter, 150

  Kruk, Herman, 209–13, 217, 241, 279

  Künsberg, Baron Eberhard von, 203

  Kuperminc, Jean-Claude, 134–36, 272

  Kuznitz, Cecile E., 193

  Lachman, Walter, 27–28

  Lagedi forced-labor camp, 216

  Landowska, Wanda, 138

  La Rochefoucauld, François de, 145

  League of Nations, 7

  Lebensraum, 9, 206, 229

  Legend of the Dagger Thrust, 47–48, 49, 123

  Lenard, Philipp, 86–87

  Lenin, V. I., 4, 9, 143–45, 148, 149, 237, 300

  Lenin Library, Minsk, 205, 231

  Lenin Library, Moscow, 263, 264, 303

  Leonardo da Vinci, 150

  Leo X, Pope, 161

  Levi, Primo, 187

  Lèvy, Gisèle, 155–56, 158, 161–62, 171

  Lewisohn, Ludwig, 11

  Ley, Robert, 75, 108

  Librairie Lipschutz, 138

  Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, 261–62, 304

  Library of Congress, Washington, 33, 72, 274

  Liechtenstein archive, 299–300


  Liedtke, Father Antoni, 151, 195

  Lithuania, 194; see also Vilnius

  Löhner-Beda, Fritz, 38

  Lönnrot, Elias, 192

  Lopatin, German, 143

  Louis XIV, king of France, 72

  Ludendorff, Erich, 123–24, 127

  Ludendorff, Mathilde, 124

  Ludvig II, king of Bavaria, 72

  Lunski, Khaykl, 207, 208, 209, 211, 216

  Luther, Martin, 3, 35, 124

  Maccabean Revolt, 159

  Maimonides, 136, 160, 257

  Maklakov, Vasily, 147–48

  Malraux, André, 138

  Mandel, Georges, 138

  Manget, Jean-Jacques, 119, 125

  Mann, Heinrich, 6, 49

  Mann, Thomas, 2, 5, 6, 8, 46–47, 48, 49, 51, 60

  Marc, Franz, 50

  Marie, Valérie, 274

  Marranos (conversos), 112, 113

  Marshall Plan, 258

  Marx, Karl, 83, 101, 103, 143, 300

  Marx and Engels Archive, Amsterdam, 100, 101, 102, 103, 109

  Marxism, 3, 80, 81, 240

  Maurois, André, 224

  May, Paul, 116

  Mayer, Hans, 11

  Mazower, Mark, 183

  McCarthy, Joseph, 11

  Mehmet II, Sultan, 178

  Mendelssohn, Moses, 98

  Mengele, Josef, 186

  Mensheviks, 102, 144

  Mezzasoma, Fernando, 247, 248

  Mickiewicz, Adam, 142, 151

  Miegel, Agnes, 7

  Military Library, Warsaw, 197

  Moczarski, Kasimierz, 199

  modernism, 45–46, 47–48, 69, 74

  Mohlo, Michael, 183

  Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939), 193–94

  Montgomery, Sir Bernard Law, 267

  Monuments Men, 268–69, 274–75

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 129

  Muneles, Otto, 223–24, 253, 254, 256, 258, 260

  Munich Accord (1938), 109

  Museum for Jewish Art and Culture, Vilnius, 209–10, 278–80

  Mussert, Anton, 247, 248

  Mussolini, Benito, 128, 166, 167

  Nadel, Arno, 16

  National Archives, Washington, 270

  National Chamber of Literature, 6–7

  National Institute for the History of New Germany, 182, 240

  nationalism, 12, 41–43, 47, 49, 50, 64, 126

  National Library, Jerusalem, 171, 254, 295

  National Library, Warsaw, 151, 197, 271

  National Socialism, see Nazi Party; NSDAP

  National Theater, Weimar, 40, 42, 43–47, 50

  Nazi Party:

  anti-Semitism in, 13, 42, 48, 50–51, 53, 64, 77–78, 80–86, 136, 140, 163, 166, 168, 235–39, 247–48

  Beer Hall Putsch, 49, 64, 123

  birth of, 60

  censorship imposed by, 3, 5, 11

  as cultural barbarians, 11–12

  eastern front, 195–96, 199–209, 214, 231, 238, 249

 

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