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On 10 May 1934, those writers in exile in France came together and established the Library of the Burned Books where all the works that had been banned, burned, censored, and destroyed were collected. [24] Alfred Kantorowicz, the author of the 1944 article Library of the Burned Books, was one of the key leaders instrumental in creating this ...
In 1933, Nazis burned works of Jewish authors, and other works considered "un-German", at the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin. The works of some Jewish authors and other so-called "degenerate" books were burned by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s.
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.
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.
Plaque at Bebelplaz commemorating Nazi book burning, 10 May 1933. Among the thousands of books burned on Berlin's Opernplatz in 1933, following the Nazi raid on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, were works by one of the most iconic individuals ever to write in the German language, the German Jewish Romantic poet Heinrich Heine (1797–1856
Title Notes 1933–1945 All movies starring the Marx Brothers. Banned in Nazi Germany because the comedy stars were Jewish. [10] 1933–1945 Battleship Potemkin: Banned in Nazi Germany due to fears it could inspire Marxism. [11] [12] 1933–1945 Ecstasy: Banned in Nazi Germany because of the erotic content. [13] 1933–1945 Mädchen in Uniform
Banned Books Week offers a moment to reflect on the power of the free word. Launched in 1982, the observance served as an answer to a rising number of book challenges across libraries, bookstores ...
The book details the beginning of Hitler's regime; documenting SA violence against union members and leftists, and also it also mentions the Sonnenburg concentration camp which was used to imprison political opponents for their “own” protection under the so-called protective custody scheme.