- Headline
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NAZI MOVES TO CONTROL CENTRAL BANKS
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, May 3, 1933
- Historical Event
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German Students, Nazis Stage Nationwide Book Burnings
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- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
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- Article Text
- Berlin, May 3 (UP)—After "harmonizing" labor unions throughout Germany, the nazi government moved today to take control of banks and banking.
Carrying out the second point of Chancellor Adolf Hitler's May day speech, the nazis assumed[sic] control of the Central Association of German Banks and Banking Industry, reorganized the board, appointed a nazi liaison official and began immediate action toward general reduction in interest rates.
Dr. Dolmssen, chairman of the association, resigned as director of the Reich Credit society and Dr. Fischer was elected in his stead. A new board was created with Werner Dietz acting as "liaison official of the national socialist party."
The Berlin student organization, carrying out the nazi program purging the fatherland not only of organizations but of ideas repugnant to the "new Germany," called upon all "thinking citizens" to purge their private libraries of Marxist and other "Ungerman" writings. Saturday was set as the day for the great[sec] literary purging, and library owners were asked to deliver "undesirable" books to collection squads which will tour the city in automobiles. - 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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