A uniformed soldier sits on top of a large pile of books with an open book in his hands. The pile is quite large, filling the room, halfway up the walls and spilling out into the hallway.
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Denazification

A US soldier inspects piles of Nazi books, including Mein Kampf, that were found in a German school. As part of their denazification policies, Allied authorities purged German libraries, bookstores, and schools of Nazi propaganda. Aachen, Germany, May 2, 1945.


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