On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

Photo from the Nazi book burning at Bebelsplatz (Opernplatz), Berlin on May 10, 1933, orchestrated by the Nazi party and the German Student Union as part of their propaganda campaign “Action against ...

One of the first things the Nazis did was burn queer books. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay, Jewish socialist (in other words, everything the Nazis hated) who established the Institute for Sexual ...

Gray Fitzgerald lives in Concord and was formerly a United Church of Christ pastor. I knew about the book burnings in Nazi Germany. It’s embarrassing, but I have to confess: I didn’t really understand ...