Big Book Bonfires
DESTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE | l NAZI VENOM VENTILATED ' (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received May 11, 5.45 p.m. LONDON, May 11. | The Times’ Berlin correspondent 1 says that the biggest bonfire of books I since the Middle Ages was lighted in | the Opera Square at midnight. Uni- | versify students and Nazis committed I 20,000 Marxist, Pacifist, Jewish and ! other “un-Geriuan” books to flames. I Tin square was crowded. ■ The bonfire in Berlin was followed by an unofficial procession accompanied by speeches. Goebel’s 20,000 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.” A vast assembly witnessed the proceedings unemotionally. ’The demonstration was practically confined to Nazis. At Frankfort thousands of books were steeped in paraffin and burned Similar book burnings took place at other German Cities, including 15,000 at Munich, preceded by a patriotic demonstration. Herr Schemm, the Bavarian Minister of Education, in a speech, said tho German revolution would fit Germany more than ever to lead the world.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 110, 12 May 1933, Page 5
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