History
- Berlin Black Book, supposed list of British perverts compiled by Germany during the First World War
- The Black Book, the list of people to be arrested by the Gestapo following a planned Nazi invasion of Britain in the Second World War
- Black Book (World War II), a compilation of documentary reports about the actions of Nazis against Jews in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust
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