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    The Giftschrank

    99% Invisible · Mar 9, 2016 · 18 min
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    Centuries ago, Germany came up with a way to keep books that contained “dangerous” information without releasing them to the general public: The Giftschrank. The word, a combination of “poison” and “cabinet,

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