The second exhibition by the Deutsche Bücherei attracted more attention than the first. It opened on 2 September 1916 on the occasion of the inauguration of the new library building. 

Open to the public for many months, it was dedicated to the subjects War newspapers, German universities and the war, and The Saxons in the field and on the home front. 

The first thematic group contained newspapers published by schools, associations, field hospitals, prison camps, the casualty welfare organisation and others, as well as circulars issued by industrial and trading companies to their employees. In the context of the war newspapers, the focus was specifically on the printed matter issued by the 10^th Army in Vilnius, which included newspapers, postcards, posters, playbills, and similar. 

The second group presented honorary doctors’ diplomas, field salutations of German universities and colleges, as well as war dissertations, whereby the visitors’ interest was directed specifically to the doctoral certificates of Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934) and Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937). 

Saxon greetings from home, food stamps and newspapers printed by Saxon troops were combined in the last group. These included the field gazette Der Landsturm, which was published in 1914/15 in France by the 3^rd Company of the Royal Saxon Landsturm Infantry Battalion No. 1 from Leipzig.