Berlin Library Returning Books Stolen By Nazis

BERLIN -- Berlin's Central and Regional Library says it will return books the Nazis stole from the Social Democratic Party, including an English-language copy of the Communist Manifesto.

The copy dates from 1883 and is believed to have belonged to Friedrich Engels, who penned the original German work with Karl Marx in 1848.

The library said Monday the work is one of some 70 to be returned to the party on Aug. 31.

The Social Democratic Party was banned in 1933 after Hitler came to power.

Activists from the party continued to oppose the Nazis. Many were persecuted or killed for their activities.

Comments

[grknight4]

10:04 PM on 08/23/2011

HEY norbekauss I REALLY HATE YOUR NATION YOUR NAZI IDIOLOGY AND WHAT YOUR ARIAN CREATURES STAND FOR.

[ChrisRoberts]

08:12 PM on 08/23/2011

The Communist Manifesto, lost or found, remains the same. It is awash in relentless citizen idealizati­on, rampant intractabl­e dogma and repetition of ideology. They (Social Democratic Party) can have it and keep it always, it is a monumental ode to nothingness, a streamlined lost cause.

[Rus Viking]

02:06 PM on 08/24/2011

"a monumental ode to nothingnes­s"

I always thought of Marx and Engels as more like Siskel and Ebert.

Two talentless twits,with 2 thumbs down for Capitalism, but no real alternatives.

[grknight4]

05:50 PM on 08/23/2011

norbekauss

[goofigirl 404]

11:07 AM on 08/23/2011

anything good worth reading?

[clarkkentdlyplnt]

11:06 AM on 08/23/2011

I am curious. How is it Nazis stole things, but when our boys sent things home they were 'spoils of war' and given the blessing of our government?

[CapsFan1988]

01:12 PM on 08/23/2011

to victor goes the spoils of war

[c-tom]

01:50 PM on 08/23/2011

Not blessings just a bit of look the other way. Officially looting was forbidden.

[Rus Viking]

04:25 PM on 08/23/2011

Oh WOW!

Someone who actually read a book.

How rare.

Nice to meet you, c-tom.

[jtsmadnow]

10:50 AM on 08/23/2011

idont want to hear about dicktaters . i put dick-taters in my speedos and the starch didnt make it stiff . i wonder if there were any books on groucho n harpo ?

[myenta9345]

11:11 AM on 08/23/2011

GOOD OLD BIGOTRY IS ALIVE AND WELL YOUR PARENTS TAUGHT YOU WELL

[Definer]

11:47 AM on 08/23/2011

It isn't just the article, it's the way media sends all their little subliminal messages, when they pick and choose pictures for the article, For some of us, however, we get it.

[Eric Graff]

09:06 AM on 08/23/2011

The owners/operators of faux lies are going to give back some books? Oh yeah, why keep what your followers can't read!

[woodbutcherjohn]

09:23 AM on 08/23/2011

Isn't "faux lies" a double negative, thereby making it truth?

[clarkkentdlyplnt]

11:08 AM on 08/23/2011

in the case of sarcasm it would probably slide.

[Chipper Jones]

11:19 AM on 08/23/2011

at least Fox actually has an audience...you must be one of the 3 people watching MSNBC

[CapsFan1988]

01:22 PM on 08/23/2011

...damn count me in as one of those three... all joking aside, I also watch fox and cnn, i just enjoy the news.

[crakrman79]

09:04 AM on 08/23/2011

I'm not sure just who they'd be returning them to at this point. Why not keep them in the public library for all to see?

[shhurtjr]

08:49 AM on 08/23/2011

When Karl Marx told his wife he was dedicating his book to Charles Darwin, she pitched a fit. He asked her to do two things: Calm down, and let go of his nose.

[svvalkyrie]

07:50 AM on 08/23/2011

Will the Hope Diamond be returned to France?

[Hetneo]

08:13 AM on 08/23/2011

Nope, as it was stolen during the French Revolution, by french people and used to bribe french military officer.

[BlackBuddha]

07:07 AM on 08/23/2011

Books, while important historically, are a fraction of the estimated $150,000,000,000 in Nazi war loot. The trouble is that the art occupies similar hiding places as the evidence of the war crimes.

"Death Camps" were a Free Labor source. The Labor did dangerous work associated with genetic testing and high technology experiments. Both the bushels of fruit from this labor and growers of the orchard itself were transplanted to become the heart of the American Space Program, or military industry.

General Hans Kammler was the center of the crimes.

[alderaforall]

05:28 AM on 08/23/2011

I wonder what the late fees are on those books. Yikes.

[mopowrone]

12:15 PM on 08/23/2011

I think the real question is can they find a librarian old enough to remember exactly when they were "checked out?"

[walkingwolf]

05:04 AM on 08/23/2011

its about time..!!

[seneca730]

02:05 AM on 08/23/2011

There must have been more than one copy of the Communist Manifesto; and given to the socialist Democrat party here in the USA. Surely, it is no coincidence, that the new Democrat politician's rule; "We The Little People" according to the famed Manifesto.

[ms04121966]

08:27 AM on 08/23/2011

After they finished writing the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx said it would never work.

There is a difference between a truly communist (think communal) and what passes for communism, in which there are an elitist few who actually own/run everything.

[angler725]

08:37 AM on 08/23/2011

Ah the "elitist few". Brings to mind Pelosi, Reed, Schumer and pretty much all our Reps.

[srynmichael2]

10:06 AM on 08/23/2011

Pastrami and corned beef at the top with bologna and the rest of the meats at the bottom.