1900–1939
Book burnings
10 mai 1933·Berlin
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works by Jewish authors burned in public squares by Nazi students, in Berlin and then in university cities of the Reich
On May 10, 1933, on the Opernplatz in Berlin, Nazi students and their professors committed to the flames the works they deemed contrary to the German spirit. Books by Jewish authors occupied pride of place — Freud, Marx, Einstein, Heine, Tucholsky, Feuchtwanger — alongside those of pacifists and socialists. The scene was repeated that same evening, and in the following weeks, in the university cities of the Reich.
The book-burning was staged by the Deutsche Studentenschaft and broadcast on the radio; it came shortly before the exclusion of Jews from the civil service and the intellectual professions. Heine had written a century earlier that where books are burned, one ends by burning human beings; his works were among those in the pyre.
- Period :
- 1900–1939
- Type :
- Trials and executions
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
Archives de la Deutsche Studentenschaft ; presse allemande et internationale du printemps de cette année-là.