The Library of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin: The Fate of the Book Collection

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The Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin, which existed between 1926 and 1945, was an iconic research organization of the Ukrainian emigration of that period. Respectively, the Institute Library was one of the largest and most comprehensive thematic book collections. During the final battles of World War II, the Institute building was destroyed, and the library itself was considered to be lost for a long time. As the study of the former trophy literature funds that came from Germany to the State Library of the USSR has shown, a certain part of the collection of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute was transferred to other German scientific organizations before the war and was thus preserved. The present article, along with identifying books from the original collection and studying their subsequent existence, is intended to show the mechanisms of interaction between governmental and academic structures in Nazi Germany.

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Igor I. Barinov

Institute of Slavic Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: ingobarinov@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0154-1506

PhD (History), Senior Researcher

Russian Federation, Moscow

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