The book thieves : the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance / Anders Rydell ; translated by Henning Koch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Fire That Consumes the World: Berlin -- Ghosts at Gerliner Stadtbibliothek: Berlin -- Goethe's Oak: Weimar -- Himmler's Library: Munich -- A WArrior Against Jerusalem: Chiemsee -- Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel: Amsterdam -- The Hunt for the Secrets of the Freemasons: The Hague -- Lenin Worked Here: Paris -- The Lost Library: Rome -- Fragments of a People: Thessaloniki -- The Mass Grave Is a Paper Mill: Vilnius -- The Talmud Unit: Theresienstadt -- "Jewish Studies Without Jews": Ratibor--Frankfurt -- A Wagon of Shoes: Prague -- A Book Ends Its Way Home: Berlin--Cannock.

An account of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the heroic efforts of librarians working today to return the books to their owners, explores how stolen books were used as part of a campaign to rewrite history in accordance with Third Reich views.

Originally published in Swedish as Boktjuvarna by Norstedts, Stockholm.

Translated from the Swedish.