"BACK TO BARBARISM"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 241, 12 May 1933, Page 3

"BACK TO BARBARISM"

Seizure of Socialist Property

( NAZI ACTION CRITICISED

Press Association. —Copyright. London, May 10.

"The seizure of Socialist property is evidence that Germany has rattled back to barbarism," says the Daily Herald. "The property is valued at over £3,000,000; this is plain highway robbery." A Berlin message states that the seized property includes 135 newspapers, numerous sports clubs and co-operative stores, which are now placed under Nazi control. Herr Hitler has banned the London Star owing to its criticisms of the Nazis. In retaliation for the German ban on Czecho-Slovakian newspapers Czechoslovakia has prohibited the circulation of 200 German daily and weekly journals.

The bonfire was unofficial and followed a procession. It was accompanied by a speech by Herr Goebels. Twenty thousand books by famous writers were consigned to the huge bonfire. Special venom was displayed during the burning of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Feuchwanger's "Jew Suss." The vast assembly witnessed the proceedings unemotionally. The demonstration was practically confined to Nazis. At Frankfort thousands of books were steeped in parrafin and burped. Similar book burnings occurred in other German cities, including 15,000 at Munich, preceded by patriotic demonstrations. Herr Schemm, Bavarian Minister of Education, in a speech said the Nazi revolution would fit Germany more than ever to lead the world.