Fwd: ZGram - 9/9/2004 - "Odd that nobody calls this a hate crime!"

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>Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 17:45:30 -0700
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>From: Ingrid Rimland <irimland at mail.bellsouth.net>
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>ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!
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>September 9, 2004
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>Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
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>A short and sad notice from the BBC, September 3, 2004:
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>Rare books in German library fire
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>Firemen battle the blaze in the Duchess Anna Amalia library
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>Thousands of irreplaceable books are believed to have been damaged 
>or destroyed in a fire at a library in the town of Weimar, Germany, 
>officials say.
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>The blaze in the 16th Century palace housing the Duchess Anna Amalia 
>library raged for two hours on Thursday night.
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>Workers forming a human chain managed to retrieve some 6,000 
>valuable works - including a 1534 Bible owned by Reformation-era 
>monk Martin Luther.
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>Officials are worried about water and smoke damage to many remaining books.
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>The area worst affected by the blaze housed some 12,000 to 13,000 
>volumes, the library's director, Michael Knoche said.
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>The cause of the fire is not yet known.
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>'Not insured'
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>Germany's culture minister visited the site of the fire on Friday 
>morning and said, "A piece of the world's cultural heritage has been 
>lost forever."
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>The library was established in 1691 and holds several rare works 
>spanning the 16th to the 18th centuries - a period when Weimar was 
>home to German literary legends Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and 
>Friedrich Schiller.
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>Its total collection - scattered around several sites in Weimar - 
>numbers some one million volumes, the majority of which were in the 
>building affected by the fire.
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>Many of the books were impossible to replace and therefore had not 
>been insured, Mr Knoche said.
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