BONFIRES OF BOOKS
MANY GERMAN CITIES
11 UN-GERMAN" LITERATURE
BERLIN, May 11. The biggest bonfire of books since the Middle Ages was lighted in Opera Square at midnight,. when university students and Nazis committed 20,000 Marxist, pacifist, Jewish, ■ and other "un-German" books to the flames. The Square was crowded. ' . Special venom was displayed during, the burning of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front?' and "Feuehtwanger's "Jew Suss." A vast assembly witnessed the proceedings unemotionally. The demonstration was practically confined to Nazis. At Frankfort thousands of books steeped in paraffin were burned. Similar, book'burnings took place in other German cities, including "15,000 at Munich. , The proceedings generally were preceded by a patriotic demonstration. Herr Schemm, Bavarian Minister of Education, in a speech, said the Nazi revolution would fitf Germany more than ever to lead the world. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 110, 12 May 1933, Page 7
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