Polokaust Cultural Genocide Example Warsaw Kuhn Ludewig

Displaced Books, by Maria Kuhn Ludewig. 1999

A Taste of the Culture Genocide Aspect of the Polokaust: The Systematic German Burning of Warsaw’s Libraries and Archives After the Fall of the Soviet-Betrayed Warsaw Uprising

My review is of the 1999 edition of this book, which is 99 pages long. Owing to the fact that my understanding of German is very limited, my review can only be cursory.

There are 23 chapters in this work. One chapter (p. 34-on) deals with the plunder of libraries and archives of the Soviet Union the invading Germans. Another one, Andrzej Mezynski (pp. 29-33) deals with the systematic destruction of Warsaw’s libraries and archives, the Nazis, after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising and the forced evacuation of the city. Losses of the Krasinski Library alone include many irreplaceable items, including 38,000 hand-written manuscripts and 55,000 examples of early printing. (p. 32).

Of course, this was only the tip of the iceberg. The Germans systematically destroyed the contents of libraries throughout occupied Poland.