OTTAWA: Library and Archives Canada announced Wednesday it had acquired a rare 1944 book that once belonged to Adolf Hitler. The book details certain cities’ population statistics along with organisations and media outlets key at the time to North America’s Jewish communities, Library and Archives Canada said in a statement. “This work hints at the story of what might have happened in Canada had the Allies lost World War II. The bookplate bears an eagle, and swastika, and the words “Ex Libris Adolf Hitler,” indicating it was part of his personal library. The institution added it acquired the book from a reputable Judaica dealer, who obtained it as part of a collection owned by a Holocaust survivor.

Source: Pakistan Today January 24, 2019 05:15 UTC