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Two hundred libraries in Belarus suffered damage during the war. T. Roschina calculated that 83 per cent of the libraries' collection were plundered, stolen or destroyed. 600,000 of those volumes were subsequently found in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland after the war, but a million other volumes, including rare and old printed volumes, have not been returned.
Destroyed during the World War II bombing of Belgrade, on the order of Adolf Hitler himself. [53] Around 500.000 volumes and all collections of the library were destroyed in one of the largest book bonfires in European history. [54] SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library: Sofia: Bulgaria 1943–1944 Allied bombing Allied air forces
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R&A sent agents to hunt through libraries and confiscate and copy whatever maps they could. The New York Public Library became a virtual outpost of the OSS, with map librarians dividing their time ...
In Norway, there were 150 school libraries and 50 public libraries that were destroyed by the Germans. Most of these libraries were in the province of Finnmark, where there was widespread destruction during the evacuation of the German Army forces. The Norwegians did not burn the German propaganda works that had filled their shelves when the ...
The burning of the University of Leuven's library caused the destruction of more than 230,000 books, including 750 medieval manuscripts. [15] Personal libraries and the papers of notaries, solicitors, judges, professors, and physicians were also destroyed. [16] The killings and other acts of brutality took place throughout the next night and ...
Other cities were deliberately destroyed by the German forces. One of the most famous of these planned destructions was the razing of Warsaw , the capital of Poland. [ 1 ] While extensively damaged by the failed Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Warsaw Uprising , the city later underwent a planned demolition by German forces under order from Adolf ...