Language:
German
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
"Das war ein Vorspiel nur..."
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1985) 35-50
Keywords:
Book burning History 20th century
;
Antisemitism History 1933-1939
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Intellectuals History 20th century
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Germany Cultural policy
Abstract:
Discusses the burning, on the night of 10 May 1933, of 20,000 books in Berlin and over 2,000 in other large cities of the German Reich. The bookburning was a symbolic prelude to the subsequent ban on publication and library circulation of books by Jews and by German and foreign writers who were declared to be "not in line with German culture". It was the academics who were responsible, not the "Volk" or illiterate people. Examines these incidents in the framework of the development of culture and society in Nazi Germany.
Description / Table of Contents:
Dahm, Volker. Zu George L. Mosse, "Die Bildungsbürger verbrennen ihre eigenen Bücher". Ibid. 50-55.
Note:
An English translation appeared as "Bookburning and the betrayal of German intellectuals" in "New German Critique" 31 (1984) 143-155.
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