When Ava DuVernay decided to tackle Nazi book burnings for her upcoming film “Origin,” the filmmaker didn’t want to re-create the event in a Hollywood backlot — she chose to film in the exact location ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Certainly! Here's the revised video description with all links removed: --- German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who wrote in his 1821 play Almansor the famous admonition, “Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt ...

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 ...