Material Offering Lethal Advice

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Amazing as it might seem off-limits material that should not really be shared among people has not been shredded, has not been thrown away, but instead is under lock and key in a padlocked room in the National Library of Australia. That leads me to two questions Why would they hold on to such material? and Does anyone ever get access to this material? In the padlocked room is the country’s largest collection of off-limit materials. No one can know the location of this room because the books that are there are not authorized for public viewing. There is such material as a guide to performing suicide and textbooks that include errors in the experiments which would lead to the production of toxic chemicals. This secret room is referred to as a giftschrank which is a German term, coming from the words poison and cabinet. Once the Third Reich collapsed, Nazi literature was not burned but stored in giftschranks. Now, this material has nothing to do with the Nazis only someone has given the padlocked room that name because of the type of material that is in there. The reason this material has been locked away is that according to the director of Australian Collections Management it is the duty of the library to keep the history of Australian publishing and there are times that people publish things which they should not have published. Does that make sense to you? Do you think that this material should be kept locked away or destroyed? My thoughts are, suppose some maniacs which are more than we need in this world one day discover this room and choose to break in and well, you can imagine the results if they pass the information in the material onto other maniacs. Sort of like, sitting on a powder keg.