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Nazi book burning in 1933....
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May 11, 1933
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 11, 1933.
* Nazi Book Burnings
* Jewish
* Berlin, Germany
This 38 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that includes:
* NAZIS BOOK-BURNING FAILS TO STIR BERLIN
* 40,000 Watch Students Fire Volumes in a Drizzle, but Show Little Enthusiasm
and more. Continues on page 12 with smaller related headlines. Other Nazi (Hitler) related headlines as well.
Other news of the day throughout. Rag edition in great 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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