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"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning humans." — German Poet Heinrich Heine, 1820 ... Any course syllabus that had as your reading requirement books by John Dos Passos, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Emile Zola, H.G. Wells,... [read full story]                    

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Köhler voices Germany's shame at 1933 book burning

 dw-world.de May 10, 2008
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75 years on, Germany remembers authors of books burned by Nazis

 earthtimes.org May 9, 2008
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Köhler voices Germany's shame at 1933 book burning

dw-world.de
May 10, 2008
        

Germany has marked the 75th anniversary of the book burnings under Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. At the main ceremony in Berlin, President Horst Köhler said that Germans recalled with shame how people all over the country applauded and cheered as the books of Sigmund Freud,...

                   

German president voices country's shame at 1933 book burning

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May 9, 2008
        

Germany's president on Friday marked the 75th anniversary of the 1933 book-burning that was an emblematic step in the Nazis' seizure of power, voicing his country's shame for actions that he said faced little resistance at the time. ... "We recall today with shame that 75...

75 years on, Germany remembers authors of books burned by Nazis

earthtimes.org
May 9, 2008
        

Berlin - Germany began ceremonies Friday to recall how Nazi Germany heaped books on bonfires 75 years ago in a ritual execution of democratic ideas that completed the Nazis' takeover. The trauma of the May 10, 1933 burnings, conducted by students o...