Canada acquires rare book previously owned by Adolf Hitler
Library and Archives Canada announced Wednesday it had acquired a rare 1944 book that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.
Written in German, Statistics, Media, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada is a 137-page report produced in 1944 by Heinz Kloss, a famed German linguist who had contact with US Nazi sympathizers.
The book details certain cities’ population statistics along with organizations and media outlets key at the time to North America’s Jewish communities, Library and Archives Canada said in a statement.
This work hints at the story of what might have happened in Canada had the Allies lost World War II.
It also demonstrates that the Holocaust was not a purely European event, but rather an operation that was stopped before it reached North America, it added.
The bookplate bears an eagle, and swastika, and the words Ex Libris Adolf Hitler, indicating it was part of his personal library.
Hitler was an avid reader with a collection reportedly containing 6,000 to 16,000 titles.
Library and ACanada acquires rare book previously owned by Adolf Hitler
Library and Archives Canada announced Wednesday it had acquired a rare 1944 book that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.
The institution added it acquired the book from a reputable Judaica dealer, who obtained it as part of a collection owned by a Holocaust survivor.
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