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Nazi book burning in 1933....
Nazi book burning in 1933....
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May 10, 1933
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 1933.
* Nazi Book Burnings
* Jewish
* Berlin, Germany
This 36 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page:
* NAZIS PILE BOOKS FOR BONFIRES TODAY
* 25,000 Volumes Gathered by Berlin Students---Other Cities to Follow Suit
* A New Code For Schools
and more.
Related articles inside. Other news of the day throughout. Little browning around the margins, otherwise in good condition.
source: wikipedia: The works of Jewish authors and other so-called "degenerate" books were burnt by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. Richard Euringer, director of the libraries in Essen, identified 18,000 works deemed not to correspond with Nazi ideology, which were publicly burned.
On May 10, 1933 on the Opernplatz in Berlin, S.A. and Nazi youth groups burned around 20,000 books from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and the Humboldt University; including works by Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Erich Maria Remarque, and H.G. Wells. Student groups throughout Germany also carried out their own book burnings on that day and in the following weeks. Erich Kästner wrote an ironic account (published only after the fall of Nazism) of having witnessed the burning of his own books on that occasion.
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