Posted on February 17, 2008 in Images

On May 10th, 1933, university students and German citizens burned 25,000 volumes of books deemed ‘un-German’, as nationalist students marched in torchlight parades “against the un-German spirit.” The scripted rituals called for high Nazi officials, professors, rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators. At the meeting places, students threw the pillaged and unwanted books into the bonfires with great joyous ceremony, band-playing, songs, “fire oaths,” and incantations.

Un-German Literature is Sorted Out for the Book-Burning Ceremony

Book Burning Ceremony: Against the Un-German Spirit (1933)