Is it because the movie was adapted from a popular late-80's German comic book?

Some had the heavy look of German technical books, and one or two were French.

I have seen photos in German books, and it is a real stunner.

But it is really the same with German books.

The house also hosts a public library with 7,400 German books, which later expanded into a collection of 22,000 volumes.

He borrowed German books on physics, optics and medicine from him.

Yps was a German comic book which ran for over 1,000 issues from 1975 to 2000.

A third is made of pages torn from a battered old German book.

He flipped through the index in the German book without looking anything up.

Half of the store is dedicated to a library with German and English books.