Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
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"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools and gather together countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution, and participated in the denazification of book collections. Information Hunters explores what collecting meant to the men and women who embarked on these missions, and how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books and documents. It uncovers the worlds of collecting, in spy-ridden Stockholm and Lisbon, in liberated Paris and devastated Berlin, and in German caves and mineshafts. The wartime collecting missions had lasting effects. They intensified the relationship between libraries and academic institutions, on the one hand, and the government and military, on the other. Book and document acquisition became part of the apparatus of national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. These efforts also spurred the development of information science and boosted research libraries' ambitions to be great national repositories for research and the dissemination of knowledge that would support American global leadership, politically and intellectually. military intelligence, librarians, archivists, Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Services."--
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Acquisitions (Libraries)
Acquisitions (Libraries) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Books
Books -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Confiscations and contributions
Cultural property
Cultural property -- Protection -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Destruction and pillage
History
Information services
Intelligence service
Intelligence service -- United States -- Information services
Librarians
Librarians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Library of Congress Mission to Germany
Military intelligence
Protection
United States. -- Office of Strategic Services
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Europe
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe
World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States
Acquisitions (Libraries) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Books
Books -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Confiscations and contributions
Cultural property
Cultural property -- Protection -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Destruction and pillage
History
Information services
Intelligence service
Intelligence service -- United States -- Information services
Librarians
Librarians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Library of Congress Mission to Germany
Military intelligence
Protection
United States. -- Office of Strategic Services
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Europe
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe
World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States
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Library of Congress Mission to Germany
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States
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Intelligence service -- United States -- Information services
Librarians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Library of Congress Mission to Germany
United States. -- Office of Strategic Services
World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Europe
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe
World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States
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Information hunters : when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
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Destruction and pillage
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Cultural property
Destruction and pillage
History
Information services
Intelligence service
Librarians
Military intelligence
Protection
World War, 1939-1945
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