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BONFIRE OF BOOKS
Nazis Clean Up In Germany
JEWS DERIDED
BERLIN, May 10
Berlin’s greatest bonfire of books since the middle ages occurred in Opera Square at midnight. While searchlights played on the crowded square, university students led by Nazis committed 20,000 Marxist, pacifist, Jewish, and other “un German” books to the flames.
Thousands of students bearing torches escorted the condemned books.
They passed the books from hand to hand and then hurled them amid wild cheers on to the blazing pile. The flames luridly lighting the cathedral of the old Imperial Palace heightened the barbarity of the scene.
As the books were destroyed the authors’ names were announced… The wildest applause greeted the destruction of works by Remarque, author of “All Quiet on the Western Front”… As
