Chapter 5: Of US Safekeepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. List of Illustrations and Captions XIII
5. Introduction and Acknowledgments 1
6. Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex, 1939-2002 - A Chronology 5
7. Chapter 1: “They’ve sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind” 9
8. Chapter 2: “Habent Sua Fata Libelli” - Books Have Their Own Destiny 23
9. Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender 38
10. Chapter 4: “Protect and Respect These Symbols...” 47
11. Chapter 5: Of US Safekeepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers 55
12. Chapter 6: “Enjoy the War, the Peace Is Going to be Terrible!” 67
13. Chapter 7: Hope Deferred 78
14. Chapter 8: Going, Going, Gone! 84
15. Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books” 96
16. Chapter 10: The Professor 111
17. Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo 119
18. Chapter 12: Ardelia 127
19. Chapter 13: From the Ashes of the Phoenix 147
20. Chapter 14: Return of the Wounded Warrior 158
21. Chapter 15: Eyewitness 166
22. Chapter 16: Ten Years Later... Proof, Proof and More Proof 173
23. Chapter 17: To Err is Human, to Admit, Divine 187
24. Chapter 18 : The Owl of Minerva 198
25. Chapter 19: “The Last, the Worst, Dull Spoiler, Who Was He?” 207
26. Appendix 223