Poland: Nazi-era collection of masonry books from Himmler looks to shed light on secretive group

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An archive of free masonry books amassed by Heinrich Himmler has been collected by the University library in Poznan.

“This collection is unique because these are different books than the ones I have been working on so far. This halo of mystery, these codenames, the fact that not everything is written directly makes opening each of these books a bit like an adventure. And when we discover what is contained in this book, I feel genuine joy and a bit of pride,” explained the curator at the library Karolina Tomczyk-Koziol.

The collections were sent to Poland by Himmler himself when he scattered them throughout Masonic lodges as the Nazi regime started to show signs of falling.

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SOT, Karolina Tomczyk-Koziol, curator of the University library in Poznan (Polish): “This collection is unique because these are different books than the ones I have been working on so far. This halo of mystery, these codenames, the fact that not everything is written directly makes opening each of these books a bit like an adventure. And when we discover what is contained in this book, I feel genuine joy and a bit of pride.”

SOT, Karolina Tomczyk-Koziol, curator of the University library in Poznan (Polish): “The point is that we have a closed collection, that these are collections of Masonic lodges, some of them almost complete. Sometimes it is not important that the book has five copies, it is important that we have almost the entire collection of the lodge’s library from Hamburg, for example.”

SOT, Karolina Tomczyk-Koziol, curator of the University library in Poznan (Polish): “Himmler’s library was kept in Berlin. At first, there was only a collection from German boxes, but as the Nazis took power in other countries, this collection grew. There were also collections from Austrian, Belgian, Dutch, French and Norwegian lodges. When in 1943 Berlin was already threatened with air raids by the Allied forces, Himmler decided to move the collection to a safer place and divided it into certain groups, some of them went to the Czech Republic and some to Poland.”

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