The seemingly simple act of burning books carried profound implications. It was an attempt to control not just information but the very essence of thought and expression. By destroying printed materials, the Nazis sought to eliminate alternative perspectives and dissenting voices, paving the way for a monolithic ideology. In a conceptual twist, one might imagine these surviving fragments finding a hypothetical home in the “Library of Babel.” This imagined library, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ short story, contains every possible combination of letters and words. In this vast and infinite repository of knowledge, the fragments of texts that escaped the Nazis’ flames could be symbolically restored.