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Infamous Nazis book burnings in 1933...
Infamous Nazis book burnings in 1933...
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May 10, 1933
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 1933
* Nazi Book Burnings
* Joseph Goebbels
* Jewish - Jews
The front page has one column headings that include: "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 (see). Related articles inside as well. Coverage on one of the events that led to the eventual Jewish Holocaust. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Other news, sport and advertisements of the day. Complete in 36 pages, this is the rare rag edition that was produced on very high quality newsprint, with a high percentage of cotton & linen content, allowing the issues to remain very white & sturdy into the present. Given the subscription cost, libraries & institutions rather than individuals were the primary subscribers of these high-quality editions. Very nice condition.
wikipedia notes: 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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