NAZIS CLEAN UP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18193, 14 September 1933, Page 4

NAZIS CLEAN UP

BOOKS BURNT BY THE TON HUMORLESS REFORMERS HEIDELBERG, Aug. 1. For six weeks the Nazi professors and students have been combing tho university library, in imitation of tho early campaign in Berlin ancl Munich, and the- bpoks -of the Jews and the Comm.iijiis.ts have been burned in. .the squtirh before the university. In the centre of the Universitatsplatz, a huge triangular bookcase was built; it reached as high as the second storey of ,the university and its framework was draped with Communist flags, which .were.to perish with the Communist literature. Hereon wero the thousands of books, by 200 banned authors, who have aroused the ire of these intense, humorless reformers. Tho procession which came into the Universitatsplatz was a mile long; the representatives of 30 duelling associations, the detachments of. Nazis, singing clubs, sporting associations, steel helmets, and Boy Scouts. The writer watched them from a high window, a beautiful picture as far as light and color were concerned, a procession of swaying torches and hot, excited faces. The torches were flung into growing mounds of lire and then the leader of the Socialist Studontenschaft came forward and called for “Sileneium.” Four loud speakers carried his indignant speech to the thousands of students and townspeople who pressed aboSt the edges of the square.