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Written in pencil, the numbers appear at the corner of the yellowed paper, the width of each book is duly measured, a dedication covers the flyleaves, dates, abbreviations like so many mysterious codes.
Everything has been photographed, scanned, listed, as in a crime scene.
Eighty years apart, the crime in question, which resembles a cold case – a cold file – might seem venial, but the Berlin State Library is committed to fixing it.
This Thursday, March 10, 2022, the flagship institution of German letters will officially return, to
Le Figaro,
thirty-three books looted in the 1940s by the Nazi regime, property of the daily library and its then director, Lucien Romier.
The ceremony will take place at the French Embassy.
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