Book Burnings In Nazi Germany
The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (, ''DSt'') to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, pacifist, and sexologist authors among others. The initial books burned were those of Karl Marx and Karl Kautsky, but came to include other authors, including Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, Magnus Hirschfeld, and effectively any book incompatible with Nazi ideology. In a campaign of cultural genocide, books were also burned ''en masse'' by the Nazis in German-occupied Europe, occupied territories, Polish culture during World War II#Destruction of Polish culture, such as in Poland.Hench, John B. (2010) ''Books As Weapons'', p. 31. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Precursors In Dresden, on March 7 and 8, 1933, t ...
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