The bookplate of the previous owner is clear. His nefarious intentions are well known.
The work, "Statistics, Media and Jewish Organizations in America and Canada" is a mere 137 pages and is a rare book, but that is not the only reason why it was now sold to the University of Canada at the inflated price of $4500. Perhaps this is even a cheap amount considering who the original owner of this volume was.
This book contains the `Ex Libras', the symbol of ownership in the personal library of the Nazi enemy, Adolf Hitler ym"sh. Researchers speculate that this book served the Nazi leader in planning a "Final Solution" for Jews living on the North American continent.
It is not a particularly interesting work, most of it containing numerical tables. But upon examining the contents and understanding their import, one is suddenly in shock. The lists represent the various cities in the U.S. and Canada, along with the number of Jews living in each one. There are no private addresses but a book of this kind in the hands of the Nazi fiend requires no elaboration. It was clearly intended to serve one single purpose: to locate the members of the Jewish people across the ocean and carry out a Final Solution upon them as well.
"Had the Second World War culminated in a victory for the other side, this information would have sufficed as a foundation to begin implementing that Final Solution in Canada," says Michael Kent, director of the libraries which received this rare book.
Small settlements, besides Toronto and Montreal, distant from the central area, were also included in the book, like Trois Rivieres in Quebec where there were only 52 Jews, but the Nazi antipathy was not willing to overlook them.
