A01=Opritsa D. Popa
Author_Opritsa D. Popa
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Nachkriegszeit (Weltkrieg II)
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- ISBN 9783110177305
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2003
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated Willehalm codex, both of which had been removed from the State Library in Kassel for protection from bombing raids.
