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Berlin, June 1 (CNA) An exhibition in Prague featuring ancient books from Taiwan's National Central Library kicked off Thursday, with the aim of deepening cultural exchanges between Taiwan and the Czech Republic, according to the library.
Hackers Attack Czech Republic s National Library - Spokesperson Wed 19th May 2021 | 12:10 AM
PRAGUE (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 19th May, 2021) The National Library of the Czech Republic suffered a cyberattack on Tuesday and had to close its doors to visitors temporarily, library spokesperson Irena Manakova said. The National Library was the subject of a cyberattack on Tuesday. After we discovered it, all our computers were turned off. Specialists are working to restore the equipment. The library has also reported the incident to the National Cyber and Information Security Agency [NUKIB], Manakova told journalists.
Meanwhile, the cybersecurity agency s spokesperson, Jiri Taborsky, told reporters that his agency had received information about the incident and have started looking into the attack. The official refrained from sharing any more details.
The
Daily Mail article connected the discovery of the “rare” witchcraft books at the Czech National Library with the creation by Himmler of a special unit called
H-Sonderkommando in 1935, so named for the first letter of the German word
Hexe, meaning witch. Apparently this unit was part of a systematic search by the Nazis for texts connected with magic and witch-hunt trials, subjects which came to obsess Himmler, who believed “the hocus pocus books held the key to Ayran supremacy in the world,” according to the
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The Local claimed that the SS troops combed over 260 libraries and archives for information, accumulating the largest collection of books on witches and their persecution in medieval Germany, which was dubbed the witch library. Quoting a Norwegian Masonic researcher, the article claimed that about 6,000 of the 13,000 books were seized from the Norwegian Order of Freemasons in Oslo.