My grandparents bought a set of Encyclopedia Britannica - the old fashioned leather bound ones that were then an investment - published 1961. I have by default inherited them. I am looking at them as a result of this thread and it is rather eye opening. (Of course the one book missing is H because my cousin lost it after borrowing it for a school paper back in the day), but I looked at other topics. No mention of any camps by name - the closest I found was just Bergen as a city and seaport in Norway. The term Nazi refers you to National Socialism of which there is a fair amount of information. This little nugget I found interesting given our recent history in that it states that 'Hitler's most important individual contribution to his theory and practice of National Socialism was his deep understanding of mass psychology and mass propaganda in the contemporary world and his perfection of the methods learned from Bolshivek technique.' (That old playbook!) The entry on WW2 is huge, but it is more about the military campaigns. One brief mention of Hitler's suicide in the fall of Berlin.
Another interesting nugget was when I looked up Nuremberg;. The only reference in the history of the city is "it was also the scene of the Allied trials of German War criminals." Um, ok. But no mention of them - no entry for Eichmann, no Mengele. And this is some 15 years aftet the war. Yet, there are all kinds of bios of people. Example: In looking for Mengele, I found entries on George Meredith, Frances Meres, Dimitri Merezhkovsky and Ottomar Mergenthaler. But not some of what I would say are the most well-known names to come out of WW2.
My parents also purchased a set of Encyclopedias in the late sixties that are in the closet. I will have to check and compare.
My grandparents bought a set of Encyclopedia Britannica - the old fashioned leather bound ones that were then an investment - published 1961. I have by default inherited them. I am looking at them as a result of this thread and it is rather eye opening. (Of course the one book missing is H because my cousin lost it after borrowing it for a school paper back in the day), but I looked at other topics. No mention of any camps by name - the closest I found was just Bergen as a city and seaport in Norway. The term Nazi refers you to National Socialism of which there is a fair amount of information. This little nugget I found interesting given our recent history in that it states that 'Hitler's most important individual contribution to his theory and practice of National Socialism was his deep understanding of mass psychology and mass propaganda in the contemporary world and his perfection of the methods learned from Bolshivek technique.' (That old playbook!) The entry on WW2 is huge, but it is more about the military campaigns. One brief mention of Hitler's suicide in the fall of Berlin.
Another interesting nugget was when I looked up Nuremberg;. The only reference in the history of the city is "it was also the scene of the Allied trials of German War criminals." Um, ok. But no mention of them - no entry for Eichmann, no Mengele. And this is some 15 years aftet the war. Yet, there are all kinds of bios of people. Example: In looking for Mengele, I found entries on George Meredith, Frances Meres, Dimitri Merezhkovsky and Ottomar Mergenthaler. But not some of what I would say are the most well-known names to come out of WW2.
My parents also purchased a set of Encyclopedias in the late sixties that are in the closet. I will have to check and compare.