More Books thanThought Destroyed at German Library

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‘The damages are much more terrible than we thought on the night of the fire,” Hellmut Seemann, the president of the foundation that supports the library, told reporters.

In addition to the books lost, Seemann said that about 62,000 books were damaged, about 20 percent of the library’s collection. Restoring those books will cost up to $73 million and take some seven years.

The books lost in the fire will be listed in an online database to be made available to the public, library director Michael Knoche said.