Five books, out of a total of five million stolen from French Jews, were returned on Friday July 15 by Germany to a beneficiary of a former minister. A drop in the ocean of Nazi plunder, but a strong symbol, 80 years after the fact. “To Mr. Mandel, Colonial Minister. Respectful tribute to the author,” wrote Jacques Binger in pen on July 31, 1938 on one of the first pages of his book. A few centimeters lower, the red stamp of a Berlin library, and another, blue: "restituiert" (returned). The biography Une vie d'explorer , which he dedicated to his...
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