World Scene: Germany
China Daily | Updated: 2009-10-07 07:03
400-yr-old books returned
Germany is getting back two 400-year-old law books from a former American soldier who took them as souvenirs from a salt mine storage vault in the closing months of World War II.
Robert Thomas, who was an 18-year-old just out of high school when he found the books, brought them from his home in California to give to German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth in a ceremony yesterday at the National Archives building in the capital.
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