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On the same day, the Student Union published the "Twelve Theses", a title chosen to be evocative of two events in German history: Martin Luther's burning of a papal bull when he posted his ninety-five theses in 1520, and the burning of a handful of items, including 11 books, at the 1817 Wartburg Festival on the 300th anniversary of Luther's ...
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.
Close-up of a book being burned Nazi youth brigades burning "un-German" works by Jewish and left-wing authors at the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, 1933 [1] Plaque at Bebelplaz commemorating Nazi book burning, 10 May 1933. Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried ...
In May and June 1933, in the first year of the Nazi government, there were book burnings. These book bans compose a part of the history of censorship and a subset of the list of banned books . After World War II started, Germans created indexes of prohibited books in countries they occupied, of works in languages other than German.
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The first mass book burning in Amsterdam took place later, in 1526. Thereafter, public book burning remained part of life in the Habsburg Netherlands for much of the 16th century, Anabaptist and Calvinist writings later joining the Lutheran ones in the flames. Yet despite this relentless campaign, Protestant writings continued to proliferate.
Book burning in the Opernplatz, Berlin, May 11, 1933. May – Nazi book burnings take place in Germany by the German Student Union, principally of works by Jewish intellectuals, leading to an Exilliteratur. Although his novels are spared (unlike those of his brother Heinrich Mann), Thomas Mann settles in Switzerland.
All of Zweig's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year. [124] Works Sigmund Freud: 1901–1933 Non-fiction All of Freud's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year. [124] The Iron Heel: Jack London: 1908 Novel Banned by the Nazis along with two other London novels, Martin Eden and The ...