Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Language Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
83, 3 (1988) 627-643
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Book burning
Abstract:
Explores the background to the bookburning campaign of May 1933, in which the works of Jewish and other "un-German" writers were burned in universities all over Germany. The campaign was organized by Nazi students' organizations, helped by Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry and Rosenberg's Kampfbund für Deutsche Kultur. Views Luther's burning of Catholic works, and the burning of liberal works by nationalist antisemitic students at the Wartburg Festival in 1817, as precedents for the students' action. The bookburning was part of the Nazi campaign to "coordinate" German literature, and by the end of March 1933 most of the leading writers had left Germany. Surveys Nazi attempts to mobilize support for their actions among nationalist writers, and protests by writers whose books were banned or burned and by their friends abroad.
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