In September, a catastrophic fire destroyed a historic library in Weimar. “Around 50,000 books, most of them from the 17th and 18th centuries, along with 35 paintings and the Duchess Anna Amalia’s sheet music collection were destroyed by the flames. Some 62,000 volumes that were damaged by fire and extinguishing water, each wrapped individually in cling film, were transported to Leipzig for “first aid“ – more than 40 metric tons of librarian-style emergency cases.”