Germany returns seven looted books during Marc Bloch's pantheonization

Germany returns seven books confiscated during World War II to the Bloch family, discovered in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Greiz.

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This restitution accompanies honors for historian Marc Bloch's pantheonization, founder of the Annales journal.

The gesture symbolizes German recognition of Nazi-era cultural plundering.

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