‘How Bookbinders Used Old Records to Help the Nazis Find Their Victims’
“…paper restorers and bookbinders in Nazi Germany had helped the regime track down people’s Jewish ancestry by conserving and cleaning up old records from churches, as well as from synagogues and civil registers.
By tasking professionals… the Nazis gained access to generations’ worth of material — which they used to target specific population groups…”
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