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Book burning in Berlin, 10 May 1933 Examples of books burned by the Nazis on display at Yad Vashem. The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (German: Deutsche Studentenschaft, DSt) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s.
A memorial on Bebelplatz, site of a Nazi book burning in May 1933.Empty shelves are visible through a window in the pavement. This list includes both authors whose entire literary production was officially banned in Nazi Germany and authors who were only partially banned. [1]
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 ...
On May 10, 1933, on the Opernplatz in Berlin, SA and Nazi youth groups burned some 25,000 books from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and the Humboldt University library. The books that were burned included works by Albert Einstein , Vicki Baum , Bertolt Brecht , Heinrich Heine , Helen Keller , Thomas Mann , Karl Marx , Erich Maria Remarque ...
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 ...
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.
The books from France were stored in Silesia alongside hundreds of thousands of books stolen from Belarus, and this is why so many French books ended up in Minsk. "According to Nazi records, a squad descended on Professor [Victor] Basch's Paris apartment in January 1941 and took 17 cases of books.