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Book Burning and Censorship in Nazi Germany – presented by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Book Burning and Censorship in Nazi Germany – presented by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ninety years ago this month, university students in Nazi clubs led an enthusiastic crowd in the burning of more than 25,000 “un-German” books in a Berlin public square. These planned, torchlit purges occurred in 34 university towns across Germany. In the aftermath of the book burnings, the Nazi regime raided bookstores, libraries, and publishers’ warehouses […]

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