Book Burning in the 20th Century—1933
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." (German: "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.")—Heinrich Heine, from his play Almansor (1821)
Thousands of books smoulder in a huge bonfire as Germans give the Nazi salute during the wave of book-burnings that spread throughout Germany. International News Photos. (NWDNS-208-N-39840) Still Picture Branch (NWDNS), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 PHONE: 301-713-6625 x234 FAX: 301-713-7436
See also Additional photographs of the German book burnings, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives. See also U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections/. See also Greatness and Tragedy of the German Mind: The Case of German Mathematicians.
See also “The Burning of the Books in Nazi Germany, 1933: The American Response,” by Guy Stern.
Use War and Conflict Number 986 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image from the National Archives and Records Administration.
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Thousands of books smoulder in a huge bonfire as Germans give the Nazi salute during the wave of book-burnings that spread throughout Germany. International News Photos. |
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1933 |
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