{"id":1757,"date":"2008-02-17T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T00:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/image-of-the-day\/02\/17\/a-book-burning-ceremony-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T19:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T00:38:20","slug":"book-burning-ceremony-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/image-of-the-day\/02\/17\/book-burning-ceremony-nazi-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Burning Ceremony in Nazi Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 10th, 1933, university students and German citizens burned 25,000 volumes of books deemed &#8216;un-German&#8217;, as nationalist students marched in torchlight parades &#8220;against the un-German spirit.&#8221; 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, &#8220;fire oaths,&#8221; and incantations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Un-German Literature is Sorted Out for the Book-Burning Ceremony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/image-of-the-day\/02\/17\/book-burning-ceremony-nazi-germany\/sortingjpg\/' rel='attachment wp-att-1758' title='sorting.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/sorting.jpg' alt='sorting.jpg' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Burning Ceremony: Against the Un-German Spirit (1933)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bookburning1.jpg' title='bookburning1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bookburning1.jpg' alt='bookburning1.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/image-of-the-day\/02\/21\/the-building-of-nazi-germany-part-1\/bookburning2jpg\/' rel='attachment wp-att-1756' title='bookburning2.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bookburning2.jpg' alt='bookburning2.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0009RCPUC&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>   <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0684829495&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>   <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=6305037280&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>   <iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0531056333&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org\/images\/highres_30002560%20copy.jpg\" alt=\"burning a flag\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 10th, 1933, university students and German citizens burned 25,000 volumes of books deemed &#8216;un-German&#8217;, as nationalist students marched in torchlight parades &#8220;against the un-German spirit.&#8221; The scripted rituals called for high Nazi officials, professors, rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators. 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