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Book burning in Berlin, 10 May 1933 Examples of books burned by the Nazis on display at Yad Vashem. ... –Heinrich Heine (1823) [a] [22] (Heine's books were among ...
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (/ ˈ h aɪ n ə /; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaɪnə] ⓘ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry , which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert ...
They burned around 20,000 books, including works by Heinrich Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein and many other authors. Erich Kästner, whose books were also among those burned, was present at the scene and described it with bitter irony in his diary. [citation needed]
A plaque outside the memorial includes a quotation from the German writer Heinrich Heine: “That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.”
Most of the books, about 80, came from Hitler's Berlin bunker and were given to Brown in 1986 by the late Matthew S. Perlman, who graduated from the university in 1957.
In his 1821 play, Almansor, the German writer Heinrich Heine – referring to the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an, during the Spanish Inquisition – wrote, "Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn people."
The Empty Library (1995) by Micha Ullman The memorial, with St. Hedwig's Cathedral behind. The Empty Library (1995), also known as Bibliothek or simply Library, is a public memorial by Israeli sculptor Micha Ullman dedicated to the remembrance of the Nazi book burnings that took place in the Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany on May 10, 1933.
Gomez has proven she can attract an online audience with hate. She appeared to burn LGBTQ-related books in one video during her campaign for secretary of state, a job that includes oversight of ...