Germany on Friday marked 80 years since mass book burnings by the Nazis, as officials said the country had yet to recover from its self-inflicted "intellectual decapitation". On May 10, 1933, less than four months after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, his followers burned thousands of books by leading writers and scholars. The speaker of the Bundestag lower house of parliament, Norbert Lammert, joined a commemoration at Berlin's Humboldt University near ...Sunday, 12 May 2013
Effect Of Nazi Book Burnings Still Felt by Germany
Germany on Friday marked 80 years since mass book burnings by the Nazis, as officials said the country had yet to recover from its self-inflicted "intellectual decapitation". On May 10, 1933, less than four months after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, his followers burned thousands of books by leading writers and scholars. The speaker of the Bundestag lower house of parliament, Norbert Lammert, joined a commemoration at Berlin's Humboldt University near ...
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