- Headline
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Blacklisted Books Gathered For Huge Bonfire in Berlin
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, May 10, 1933
- Historical Event
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German Students, Nazis Stage Nationwide Book Burnings
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- Berlin —(AP)— Blacklisted books from private as well as public libraries were piled high today on "Kultur's Altars" throughout[sic] Germany for public burning tonight.
Schoolboys enthusiastically rushed final preparations for the huge bonfires. Nazi student committees of action have been working at top speed more than a week arranging for the great purging of the libraries of "un-German influences."
Government recognition is to be lent to the occasion in a rallying speech shortly before midnight by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of public enlightenment.
Works of many American authors—Helen Keller, Upton Sinclair. Jack London, Ben Lindsey, Franz Boaz, Morris Hillquit and others—are among the proscribed volumes.
Some 20,000 books are collected for the big fire to be set off in Opera Square in Berlin, and Dr. GoebbeN will speak.
In place of the proscribed volumes, students advised such books as "The Crime of Free Masonry" by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, editor of Hitler's newspaper, The Voelkisher Beobachter, and head of the new Nazi foreign division. Among books compulsorily introduced is Chancellor Hitler's "Mein Kampf" (My Fight). There must be two to 10 copies in each library.
Other books being burned works of Dr. Albert Einstein, Emil Ludwig, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Nikolai Lenin, Leon Trotzky, Karl Lieoknecht, Rosa Lumemberg, Emil Vandervelde, Bertha Vonsuttner and Thomas and Heinrich Mann. A priceless collection of medical books from Magnus Hirschfeld's institute was seized but may be saved.
All books of a socialistic, Jewish or pacifist trend are especially marked for destruction. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Carlos G.
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Bibliography
Birchall, Frederick T. “Burning of the Books, May 10, 1933.” In National Socialist Germany: Twelve Years that Shook the World, edited by Louis L. Snyder, 101–104. Malabor, FL: Krieger, 1984.
Stern, Guy. “The Burning of the Books in Nazi Germany, 1933: The American Response.” (external link) Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual 2, (1985): 95–114.
Stern, Guy. Nazi Book Burning and the American Response: Distinguished Lecture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 1991.
United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Nazi Book Burnings and the American Response. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1988.
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