BOOK BURNINGS
"The breakthrough of the German revolution has opened the way for what is truly German"
- Joseph Goebbels
- Joseph Goebbels
On May 10, 1933, under the leadership of Goebbels, thousands of people were gathered into the streets of Germany where books thought to harm Nazi Germany were burned. As the fire roared, students danced and chanted the names of the authors whose works were aflame.
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[Goebbels at the Burning at Opernplatz, 1933]
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[Joseph Goebbels at the Book Burning, 1933]
"The age of an overly refined Jewish intellectualism has come to an end, and the German revolution has made the road clear again for the German character. This revolution came not from above; it broke out from below. It is therefore in the best sense of the word the fulfillment of the will of the people. Here stands the worker by the professional, the student by the soldier and young worker, here stands the intellectual with the proletarian."
- Speech at the Book Burnings in Berlin by Joseph Goebbels, 1933 [Books Burn at the Opernplatz, 1933]
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Many works not even written by Jews were destroyed because they were viewed as a threat.
[SA man throws books into the fire, 1933]
"In the last fourteen years, comrades, as you have been forced in silent shame to suffer the humiliations of the November Republic, the libraries became filled with trash and filth from Jewish asphalt-litterateurs."
- Speech at the Book Burnings in Berlin by Joseph Goebbels, 1933 |
"Let it be an oath illuminated by man flames! Heil to the nation and our leader Adolf Hitler!"
- Speech at the Book Burnings in Berlin by Joseph Goebbels, 1933
- Speech at the Book Burnings in Berlin by Joseph Goebbels, 1933
From this point and onward, a revolution towards a different mind set was created because of Goebbels influence dealing with the burning of many different Jewish works.
"From these ashes there will arise the phoenix of a new spirit"
- Joseph Goebbels
- Joseph Goebbels