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| The December 1940 Blitz hit Paternoster Row, the centre of the London
publishing and book trade. 20 publishing houses were partially or totally
destroyed. An estimated 5 million books were destroyed. 16,000,000 were
destroyed by the Nazis in Poland. The National Library of Poland’s
manuscript collection was destroyed to erase Polish National History. Equally
Allied bomber attacks caused extensive destruction of German libraries –
Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dresden – the list goes
on. We destroyed over 900 million books. In 1953 Senator McCarthy drew up
a list of pro-communist authors and libraries were ordered to remove them
from their shelves. Many were burned or pulped. In 1992 Serbian Nationalists
firebombed The National library of Bosnia in Sarajevo destroying 1.5 million
books including 4000 rare books and 700 manuscripts A more extensive and detailed list is available on Wikipedia. The Story of one survivor …………. Read On .....
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