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Transfers of confiscated books in Czechoslovakia after WWII

Summary: Extensive confiscations of German property in Czechoslovakia after WWII included large amount of books and library collections. Beside the property of the Sudeten Germans there were also co-llections moved to the Sudetenland from Germany during the war. The article presents an outline of the transfers of this property after WWII.


Keywords: confiscation, WWII, postwar Czechoslovakia, books collections, monastic libraries

Mgr. Marcela Strouhalová / Národní knihovna České republiky (National Library of the Czech Republic), Klementinum 190, 110 00 Praha 1

 

Sep 25, 2018
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