Word: holocaust
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...nearly five decades, Harvard's libraries have housed several hundred books looted from Holocaust victims and sent back to the United States by the victorious Allies, a government report revealed this Tuesday...
...report--issued by the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets--identified thousands of books and works of art that were shipped to libraries and museums throughout this country in the years after the Second World War and were never returned to their original owners...
...acquisition of the volumes by Harvard was greeted with little fanfare in 1950. In his annual report for that year, when Harvard's libraries added a total of 30,000 books to their shelves, University Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf mentioned the Holocaust volumes only in passing...
...comparison, the Holocaust books from Jewish Cultural Reconstruction hardly aroused much interest. In fact, the first time the organization offered some of the books to universities, Harvard library officials lost the paperwork and never replied...
...Reading, writing and arithmetic are only imporant if they make people more human," he continued. "We don't want to create skilled psychopaths. The Holocaust was caused by people who called themselves Christians...