Dawn It Cannot Be

There could not have been a stronger advocate for public Libraries than Murrysville’s own Lois Albrecht, recipient of the Pa Library Association Distinguished Service Award and other recognitions. It is she that I did not name last week who taught me that democracy itself depends on public Libraries to inform, both by their resources and their services. This article is about informed World War II books of historical record (two mentioned previously in this series), as worthy reading for how a functioning democracy was once obliterated. Imagine yourself at the dawn of World War II, though dawn that war cannot be. The violence of brownshirts and book-burning does not signal sunshine. Rather, death not life. Hate not love. What began its cycle? There are two books that frame the issu…