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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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
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
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.