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“German men and women! The age of arrogant Jewish intellectualism is now at an end! . . . You are doing the right thing at this midnight hour—to consign to the flames the unclean spirit of the past. This is a great, powerful, and symbolic act. . . . Out of these ashes the phoenix of a new age will arise. . . . Oh Century! Oh Science! It is a joy to be alive!”
Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and p********a, speaking at the Berlin book burning.
May 10, 1933
The process of getting out of Richter’s house and to the Königsplatz had been carefully planned. They had told Richter that they were attending a party thrown by one of the smaller galleries which exhibited work of interest. Earlier, when Richter had taken an afternoon nap, Clyde and Milton had stashed the
