Epilogue to a Story of Nazi-Looted Books; Library of Congress Trove of War Propaganda Included Many Stolen Jewish Works From: The Washington Post | Date: January 5, 2000| Author: Michael Dobbs | Copyright 2000 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

For the Library of Congress representatives assigned to U.S. military intelligence at the end of World War II, it was the most exciting adventure of their lives, the closest they would come to actual combat. They were men with a mission: to scour occupied Germany for Nazi propaganda and fill in the gaps of the great American book collections.

After years spent cataloguing books and toiling in musty archives, the American librarians suddenly found themselves interrogating Nazi book coll...

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