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In the vast caches of loot taken during the course of war I suspect books have ranked somewhere in the middle of stolen stuff–no doubt some fine libraries have disappeared, though I can’t offhand say how many fine libraries emerged from the slaughterhouse. This photograph–a wartime news photo service image–is one of the few that I have seen depicting the capture of stolen books.