Hitler's private library
Hitler's private library was Adolf Hitler's private collection of books, excluding books he purchased for the German state library.
History
The first description of his private collection was published in 1942. Hitler's private books that were kept in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin were confiscated by the Soviets and sent to Moscow. Books in Munich and Berchtesgaden (as well as Hitler's Globe from Berchtesgaden) were taken as war booty by individual American soldiers. 3,000 were later discovered in a Berchtesgaden salt mine, and they were taken by the Library of Congress. They are now in a special locked room in the Library of Congress where they can be accessed five at a time and read in the rare book reading room.[1] Eighty books that belonged to Hitler were identified in the basement of Brown University.[2][3][4]
References
- ^ Atlantic magazine May 2003--Hitler’s Forgotten Library by Timothy W. Ryback:
- ^ "Timothy Ryback's 'Hitler's Private Library'". New York Sun. 2008. http://www.nysun.com/arts/timothy-rybacks-hitlers-private-library/86436/. Retrieved 2008-12-28. "What distinguishes the slim, elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating volume by Timothy Ryback, "Hitler's Private Library" (Knopf, 304 pages, $25.95), is his careful analysis of a small, selected number of works that he associates with formative episodes in Hitler's life."
- ^ Ryback, Timothy (2008). Hitler's Private Library. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9781400042043.
- ^ "Hitler's Forgotten Library". Atlantic Monthly. 2008. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200305/ryback. Retrieved 2008-12-28. "Sometimes writing along the side of a page is recognizably in Hitler's jagged cursive hand. For the most part, though, the marginalia are restricted to simple markings whose common "authorship" is suggested by an intense vertical line in the margin and double or triple underlining in the text, always in pencil; I found such markings repeatedly both in the Library of Congress collection and in a cache of eighty Hitler books at Brown University."
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