Canada’s archive buys 1944 book that hints at Nazi plans for North America
OTTAWA — Canada’s national archive has acquired a rare book it believes could have served as a blueprint for a Nazi purge of Jews in North America.
Once part of Adolf Hitler’s personal library, the 1944 volume reports on the Jewish population of various cities as well as key organizations and newspapers serving Canadian and American Jewish communities.
The 137-page German-language book, “Statistics, Media, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada,” was compiled by researcher Heinz Kloss, who did field work in the U.S. in the late 1930s.