Book from the IG Farben Factory in the Monowitz/Auschwitz III Concentration Camp.

[wm]

It's quite possible that in a small factory library, things weren't up to scratch. They presumably didn't have a librarian, but an office worker took care of it in his additional duties. Such a person obviously wouldn't be too keen to invalidate everything meticulously.

But the problem is the IG Farben facility was taken over not by the Poles but by the Soviets, and the Soviets moved everything to the Soviet Union. It's hard to believe the German library was spared in the process.
Additionally, Auschwitz and the region weren't merely occupied by the Germans. The entire region was incorporated into Germany and quickly Germanized. As result, German libraries were everywhere, not only in the facility.

I suppose the only reliable method is to compare with an original stamp. I would ask the librarians of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum - if the German library really existed and if they have books from it.

[Leprechaun]

But according to everything I’ve read, that company did actually take over the IG Farben facility and did aquire mostly all the books and such that was there. So if the polish stamp is real in your opinion wouldn’t that also mean the book is actually from that facility? Regardless of the top German stamp. Which if the polish one is real then I don’t see why anyone would fake the top stamp considering the book would have actually been owned by IG Farben at one time before the polish company came to acquire it.

Can you provide a link or a book where it says there was a scientific library or that the Polish company acquired the said books ? That is actually factual and not waffle from 3reich-collector.com.

[wm]

"Państwowe Zakłady Paliw Syntetycznych" certainly existed, and the name was correct till 1951 (when they renamed it.)

[Heartfeltzero]

It's quite possible that in a small factory library, things weren't up to scratch. They presumably didn't have a librarian, but an office worker took care of it in his additional duties. Such a person obviously wouldn't be too keen to invalidate everything meticulously.

But the problem is the IG Farben facility was taken over not by the Poles but by the Soviets, and the Soviets moved everything to the Soviet Union. It's hard to believe the German library was spared in the process.
Additionally, Auschwitz and the region weren't merely occupied by the Germans. The entire region was incorporated into Germany and quickly Germanized. As result, German libraries were everywhere, not only in the facility.

I suppose the only reliable method is to compare with an original stamp. I would ask the librarians of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum - if the German library really existed and if they have books from it.

Yeah that makes sense. Still curious though. So I’ve emailed them. Thank you!

[Hans1906]

I apologize for my downtime, in the heat of summer, sorry...

In my humble opinion, the stamps are old, crossing out the old stamps refers to a later transfer to another library, wherever.
(I enlarged and edited the photos as much as possible, etc.)

I own books that are hundreds of years old, and I have often been looking for information for decades, something like this doesn't work overnight, it takes a lot of patience and perseverance, I don't know any other way...

That was certainly not a professional approach at the time, but similar examples are known, blackening and pasting over are also well known.
The value of the book cannot be measured, from worthless to extremely rare, please don't allow me something like that, there are many reasons for this...

With that in mind, my best regards to all lovers of antiquarian literature, and no offense!


Hans

[GregSingh]

There are dozens of books with that stamp advertised on various auction sites. Prices ca. $100, not much interest, as subjects are boring...most of them are chemistry books.
Library really existed, but it's hard to tell which stamp is authentic without inspection.

Lots of these books are still listed in catalogues of various Polish technical universities, many scans are available for downloads from online libraries.

[Leprechaun]

In my opinion the polish stamp is genuine, but the IG Farben fake does the Frankfurt library have a stamp anyone know ? Just a dealer trying to make money out of the name Auschwitz sad really

[wm]

There is a story, maybe even true. Dealers in Gdańsk (former Danzig) had lots of box irons, but nobody was buying them because, really, who needs such things.
So they had stamped them with "Danzig," and the Germans bought them all in no time.
Problem solved.