Repatriation of stocks from Poland
A “ repatriation of stocks from Poland ” or a “repatriation of stocks from Poland”, or RüBePol for short , took place in 1965.
During the Second World War , some German libraries, including the Prussian State Library (PSB), had relocated their holdings from the early 1940s for fear of being destroyed by Allied bombings . The storage facilities were distributed throughout the entire Reich and in some cases were completely unsuitable for storing books. A not inconsiderable part of the inventory was destroyed or lost during and shortly after the war.
The books and writings that remained in the eastern German regions were not returned until the end of the war. They came into the possession of the victorious states and fell under the administrative sovereignty of the People's Republic of Poland , so that they either remained in Poland or were taken out of the country (e.g. to the Soviet Union).
After a government agreement between the People's Republic of Poland and the GDR , some of these books, about 127,000, of which about 92,000 were from the PSB, were handed over to the GDR in 1965. Until then, they were stored in the temporary collection centers in Lodz , Wroclaw , Cracow and the Warsaw University Library . Most of it was less valuable.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schochow, p. 120
literature
- Werner Schochow : Book fates. The history of relocation of the Prussian State Library. Outsourcing, destruction, alienation, repatriation. Represented from the sources. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2003, ISBN 3-11-017764-1 , pp. 7f., 114, 119f., 141, 247 ( publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin 102).
- Gerhard Strozyk: RüBePol redivivus? In: Keyword. 32, 1988, ISSN 0233-2477 , pp. 38-39.