I knew that the Nazis had burned books, but I was unaware of the book "collecting" that they had done. The Nazis went out of their way to not only exterminate the Jews, but also to create a strange homage to what they considered Jewish "backwardness". It only serves to drive home the hatred behind the act, that in addition to removing that people from the earth, they must preserve their memory as a museum of oddities in the form of pilfered libraries. The fact that thousands of these books still exist awaiting their owners fascinates me to no end.