Brennende Bücher - Burning Books - 10. Mai 1933 - By Stephan Beneking

[matterintospirit]

https://www.beneking.com
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Memorials will be held today in Germany to mark this dark day in history, for remembrance and to ensure that it never happens again.

On 10th of May 1933, exactly 80 years ago, Nazi student organizations burned ten-thousands of "un-German" books on the Opera place in Berlin. The same happened in many other german cities.
They tried to extinguish and eradicate this part of German culture.

Among the hundreds of poets and writers, whose books were banned and burned, were Bertold Brecht, Albert Einstein, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, Erich Kästner, Heinrich and Klaus Mann, Stefan Zweig and many others. They were expatriated or even put into concentration camps (e.g. Carl von Ossietzky).

Heinrich Heine, one of the most famous german poets, wrote prohpetically already 1821 (but referring to a burning of the Koran!):
"This is a prelude only, where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people."

[birba]

Also here in italy.  Thanks for posting.  The fotos were scary.  Sort of like the fotos of the KKK nocturnal hunts in the southern USA.  I tried to imagine what must have been going through their heads while they were doing that.  Really really scary what mankind can be reduced to.

[matterintospirit]

Yes thank you. Stephan Beneking and I are posting our collaboration on multiple websites on this day to raise awareness. It is indeed a frightening reality, as is all the tyranny, racial hatred and domination that has ever existed,
 and that exists today.