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Volunteers sifting through myriad boxes of books donated for the Trinity College book sale came across a surprise. The book’s outer dust jacket read Die Heilige Schrift des Alten Bundes — The Holy Scripture of the Old Testament. Hidden underneath: Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. It is the 22nd edition, published in 1933. Folded in Mein Kampf‘s first page was an article from an Austrian newspaper, dated 1938, with the headline Bismarck Und Hitler, plus a silk bookmark embroidered with Hitler’s portrait and signature.

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“It was such a weird shock to see this book,” said Linda Corman, director of the John W. Graham Library, which houses the books of Trinity College. “Look how bright it is, and clean.”

It was such a weird shock to see this book

Elizabeth-Anne Jocz, a retired librarian and longtime volunteer, threw in, perhaps hopefully, “He may not have read it, whoever owned it.”

The book appeared with a small square cut out of its first page, possibly to remove the name of the owner.