“In the territory of the Soviet Union which was occupied by the
Germans, at the beginning of 1941, there were 82,000 elementary
and secondary schools with 15 million pupils. All the secondary
schools possessed libraries, each with from 2,000 to 25,000
volumes; many schools possessed auditoria for physics,
chemistry, biology, and others. . . .
“The German fascist invaders burned, destroyed, and plundered
these schools with their entire property and equipment. . . .”