THE TALE OF STUDENTS IN TWO BERLINS AFTER A GAP OF NINETY ONE YEARS
IN 1933, THEY BURNED BOOKS, IN 2024, THEY COURTED ARREST PROTESTING WAR
08-05-2024 10:58 GMT-0000
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BERLIN – It was May 10 in Germany’s terrible year, 1933. Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire.