Anders Rydell

«Podemos ver las luces y las sombras, los esfuerzos de las víctimas y el poder apisonador de los victimarios, con los libros como campo de batalla y como tierra arrasada y como constelación supervivi

THE BOOK THIEVES : THE NAZI LOOTING OF EUROPE S LIBRARIES AND THE RACE TO RETURN A LITERATURE INHERITANCE

Mientras Berlín se iluminaba fantasmagóricamente con las piras donde ardían libros prohibidos, los nazis llevaban a cabo un crimen cultural de proporciones aún mayores. A través de una pormenorizada investigacion, Anders Rydell ha documentado el saqueo de bibliotecas, privadas y particulares, y librerias que, a lo largo y ancho de la Europa ocupada, llevaron a cabo las tropas alemanas. Los anaqueles de judios, comunistas, politicos liberales, activistas por los derechos LGTB, catolicos, masones y de cualquiera que entrara en la larga lista de enemigos del regimen, fueron expoliados y las obras que contenian esgrimidas como armas intelectuales contra sus dueños. Pero, en paralelo, esta es la historia cuasi detectivesca de como un heroico puñado de bibliotecarios, y con ellos el propio autor, han emprendido la tarea de devolver estos libros a sus dueños legitimos. Para ello, han peinado las bibliotecas publicas de Berlin con el fin de tratar de identificar los volumenes robados y han intentado dar con los familiares de aquellos que fueron despojados. En muchos casos, estos libros son el unico objeto que los descendientes de victimas del Holocausto podran tener entre las manos como un recuerdo. La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue tambien un conflicto cultural y el estudio y refutacion de toda la literatura degenerada que los nazis expoliaron pretendia justificar el deseo de Alemania de dominar el mundo y derrotar a sus enemigos con la ciencia, asi como sentar las bases intelectuales sobre las que descansaria el Reich de los mil años. Un Reich que se levantaria no solo sobre sangre y piedra, sino tambien sobre palabras.

"A most valuable book." Christian Science MonitorFor readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis systematic pillaging of Europes libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners. While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselvesAnders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europes libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own that they could use to wage an intellectual war on literature and history. In this secret war, the libraries of Jews, Communists, Liberal politicians, LGBT activists, Catholics, Freemasons, and many other opposition groups were appropriated for Nazi research, and used as an intellectual weapon against their owners. But when the war was over, most of the books were never returned. Instead many found their way into the public library system, where they remain to this day. Now, Rydell finds himself entrusted with one of these stolen volumes, setting out to return it to its rightful owner. It was passed to him by the small team of heroic librarians who have begun the monumental task of combing through Berlins public libraries to identify the looted books and reunite them with the families of their original owners. For those who lost relatives in the Holocaust, these books are often the only remaining possession of their relatives they have ever held. And as Rydell travels to return the volume he was given, he shows just how much a single book can mean to those who own it.

100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own cut flowers, and how to bake a perfect loaf of sourdough. Discover how easy it is to churn butter, make your own yogurt, and raise chickens for meat and eggs. Turn rhubarb stalks into refreshing summer wine, perfect your compost pile, and make decadent and nontoxic skin creams. Keep chickens Grow and arrange flowers Raise bees Make soap Grow fresh veggies Can and ferment your produce Make sourdough bread And more! Complete with gorgeous photos throughout, this book is sure to inspire you or the homesteader in your life to expand your repertoire of heirloom skills.