may 10, 1933 - Nazi Book Burning
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The burning of books under the Nazi regime on May 10, 1933, had a precedent in nineteenth-century Germany. In 1817, German student associations (Burschenschaften) chose the 300th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses to hold a festival at the Wartburg, a castle in Thuringia where Luther had sought sanctuary after his excommunication. The students, demonstrating for a unified country—Germany was then a patchwork of states—burned anti-national and reactionary texts and literature which the students viewed as “Un-German.”image source:
https://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/31/31077.jpg
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Date:
may 10, 1933
Now
~ 92 years ago