" Works of art were trophies that glorified leaders and the nation. Art would also reflect and legitimize the National Socialist ideals and the new human being. But the actual ideology would be underpinned by books and archives. The future would be built by a control of memory and history, on the basis of the written word. The "

― , The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance