When Books Burn
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“In Berlin, on May 10, 1933, the newly-elected Nazi party carefully orchestrated an event that would announce to Germans and the world some of the aims and the reach of the Nazi party. Beginning at nightfall, trucks laden with thousands of books taken from Berlin-area public, state and university libraries converged on the Opernplatz. Members of Nazi student groups and the Sturm Abteilung (Nazi Party private police) tossed the books onto waiting wooden biers and set them afire in a huge ‘funeral pyre of the intellect.’“The When Books Burn online exhibit explores book burning and censorship in Germany under the Nazi regime. This exhibition includes historical images, declarations chanted by the members of the Berlin German Student Association as the books burned (in German with English translations), a timeline focusing on the steady erosion of personal and intellectual freedoms, a representative list of books banned for un-German sentiments, lesson plans, and more.
