personal collections in the weeks after. Anything that was considered anti-German or that might undermine the Reich had to be purged.” Viv let that sit for a beat. “So anything written by Jewish authors.” “And communists and deviants and anyone not espousing the greatness of the master race,” the librarian said. “I don’t think we’ll ever know the true number of how many books were lost in those weeks, and the years after.”
