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| Such were the destruction of the [[Library of Alexandria]], the [[Burning of books and burying of scholars]] under China's [[Qin Dynasty]], the destruction of Mayan codices by Spanish invaders, and in more recent times [[The Burning of the Books|the book burnings by the Nazis]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | Such were the destruction of the [[Library of Alexandria]], the [[Burning of books and burying of scholars]] under China's [[Qin Dynasty]], the destruction of Mayan codices by Spanish invaders, and in more recent times [[The Burning of the Books|the book burnings by the Nazis]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | ||
| - | ===Jewish, anti-Nazi and "degenerate" books (by the Nazis)=== | ||
| - | [[Image:1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG|right|250px|thumb|In 1933, Nazis burned works of Jewish authors, and other works considered "un-German", at the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin.]] | ||
| - | The works of [[Jew]]ish authors and other so-called "degenerate" books were burnt by the [[Nazism|Nazis]] in the [[1930s]] and [[1940s]]. [[Richard Euringer]], director of the libraries in [[Essen]], identified 18,000 works deemed not to correspond with Nazi ideology, which were publicly burned. | ||
| - | **[[May 10]], [[1933]] on the [[Opernplatz]] in [[Berlin]], [[Sturmabteilung|S.A.]] and Nazi youth groups burned around 20,000 books from the [[Institut für Sexualwissenschaft]] and the [[Humboldt University]]; including works by [[Heinrich Heine]], [[Thomas Mann]], [[Karl Marx]], [[Erich Maria Remarque]], and [[H.G. Wells]]. Student groups throughout Germany also carried out their own book burnings on that day and in the following weeks. [[Erich Kästner]] wrote an ironic account (published only after the fall of Nazism) of having witnessed the burning of his own books on that occasion. | ||
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| - | == List of authors targeted == | ||
| - | '''The Burning of the Books''' is an event in [[Nazi Germany]] on [[May 10]], [[1933]] when the government ordered the mass burning of books. | ||
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| - | This is a list of the most prominent authors whose books were singled out for burning. | ||
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| - | *[[Albert Einstein]] | ||
| - | *[[Havelock Ellis]] | ||
| - | *[[Lion Feuchtwanger]] | ||
| - | *[[Sigmund Freud]] | ||
| - | *[[André Gide]] | ||
| - | *[[Franz Kafka]] | ||
| - | *[[Erich Kästner]] | ||
| - | *[[Helen Keller]] | ||
| - | *[[Alfred Kerr]] | ||
| - | *[[Jack London]] | ||
| - | *[[Heinrich Mann]] | ||
| - | *[[Thomas Mann]] | ||
| - | *[[Karl Marx]] | ||
| - | *[[Hugo Preuss]] | ||
| - | *[[Marcel Proust]] | ||
| - | *[[Walter Rathenau]] | ||
| - | *[[Erich Maria Remarque]] | ||
| - | *[[Margaret Sanger]] | ||
| - | *[[Arthur Schnitzler]] | ||
| - | *[[Upton Sinclair]] | ||
| - | *[[Jakob Wasserman]] | ||
| - | *[[H. G. Wells]] | ||
| - | *[[Stefan Zweig]] | ||
| - | *[[Emile Zola]] | ||
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Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times, other forms of media, such as phonograph records, video tapes, and CDs have also been ceremoniously burned, torched, or shredded. The practice, usually carried out in public, is generally motivated by moral, religious, or political objections to the material.
Some particular cases of book burning are long and traumatically remembered - because the books destroyed were irreplaceable and their loss constituted a severe damage to cultural heritage, and/or because this instance of book burning has become emblematic of a harsh and oppressive regime.
Such were the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the Burning of books and burying of scholars under China's Qin Dynasty, the destruction of Mayan codices by Spanish invaders, and in more recent times the book burnings by the Nazis. [1] [May 2007]
