Nnbook burnings during ww2

On may 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across germany burned over 25,000 books. During the spring of 1933, nazi student organizations, professors, and librarians made up long lists of books they thought should not be read by germans. Pastor terry joness plan to burn 200 copies of the quran in florida was widely condemned. Works of prominent jewish, liberal, and leftist writers ended up in the bonfires. The book burnings stood as a powerful symbol of nazi intolerance and censorship. In an interesting aftermath to the nazi book burnings, in 1946, the process was reversed by the allied leaders. The works of jewish authors like albert einstein and. The book burnings took place in 34 university towns and cities. This was after 300,000 others had burned when the library was attacked in world war i. Some 30,000 different titles with subject matter from poetry to educational publications used in schools were eliminated. Us holocaust memorial museum, courtesy of national archives and records administration, college park, md. Book burning united states holocaust memorial museum. E5325 t45 1942 find in a library near you external link the text of a 1942 radio play written by an american poet and broadcast on the ninth anniversary of the book burnings.

Beginning on may 10, 1933, nazidominated student groups carried out public burnings of books they claimed were ungerman. In may 1940, during nazi germanys offensive in europe in world war ii, the university library of leuven, belgium was destroyed by the german army and 900,000 books burned. But the damage couldve been much worse if not for men like abdel kader haidara, who risked their lives to protect the medieval works. A member of the sa throws confiscated books into the bonfire during the public burning of ungerman books on the opernplatz in berlin, may 10, 1933. Berlin book burnings and tells the story of how america responded by printing hundreds of millions of books for americans serving in world war ii. Then, on the night of may 10, 1933, nazis raided libraries and bookstores across germany. They marched by torchlight in nighttime parades, sang chants, and threw books into huge bonfires. University library of salzburg against oblivion april 30, 1938 april 30, 20. Nazi propaganda and censorship the holocaust encyclopedia. The mass book burnings marked a turning point in the nazis ideology campaigns. Fighting the fires of hateamerica and the nazi book burnings is organized and circulated by the united states holocaust memorial museum. The largest of these book bonfires occurred in berlin, where an estimated 40,000 people gathered to hear a speech by.