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‘Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned.’
Heinrich Heine, a German Jewish poet.
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In May 1933, Dr Goebbels organised bonfires around Germany to burn books by authors deemed not to fit in with the Nazi viewpoint. SA and students took part, burning literature from prominent Jewish and political writers such as Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann and Karl Marx.

 
 
     
 
       
 
       
 
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