May 10 1933 Nazis book burnings

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

• Introduction
• Background Information
• Book Burnings of 1933
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Introduction

On May 10, 1933 student groups at universities across Germany carried out a series of book burnings of works that the students and leading Nazi party members associated with an “un-German spirit.” Enthusiastic crowds witnessed the burning of books by Brecht, Einstein, Freud, Mann and Remarque, among many other well-known intellectuals, scientists and cultural figures, many of whom were Jewish. The largest of these book bonfires occurred in Berlin, where an estimated 40,000 people gathered to hear a speech by the propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, in which he pronounced that “Jewish intellectualism is dead” and endorsed the students’ “right to clean up the debris of the past.”

The response to the book burnings was immediate and widespread. Counter demonstrations took place in New York and other American cities, including Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago. Journalists in the American and world press expressed shock and dismay at these attacks on German intellectual freedom, and various authors wrote in support of their assaulted German brethren. Artists, writers, doctors, and other intellectuals fled Germany, prompted by the barbarity of the book burnings and by continuing acts of Nazi persecution.

Such barbarity was just the beginning, however. One can see in retrospect how the book burnings and other steps to remove “Jewish influence” from German institutions foreshadowed much more catastrophic Nazi plans for the Jews of Europe. Eerily, among the books consigned to the flames in 1933 were the works of the nineteenth century Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who in 1822 penned the prophetic words, “Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.”

 

 

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Everything Old Is New Again....................

 

 

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Meanwhile Here In * "The State Where Nothing Is Allowed"

 

The trouble at St. Olaf

Scott Johnson

May 10 2017

 

St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, has been convulsed by a series of alleged racial incidents that may or may not be what they appear to be. The Star Tribune reports that the college is scrutinizing “persons of interest” who may be responsible for a string of anonymous racist messages targeting black students. According to the college, some of the people “of interest” are affiliated with the college and others are not.

At the College Fix this morning, Nathan Rubbelke leads off his report on the efforts to discover the perpetrators with a lead that grabs attention: “Just hours after she found a typewritten note with a racial slur on her car, St. Olaf College student Samantha Wells said in an email that she didn’t want the school to investigate her case.”

Rubbelke provides this context: “That remark came at the same time as racial protests launched on campus, during which angry students blocked entrances to campus buildings, trapping students inside as demonstrators demanded redress for a string of alleged racial incidents on campus. The aggressive protest forced administrators to cancel classes last Monday to allow demonstrators to air their grievances in a daylong sit-in.”

Some students have seized on the unresolved incidents to submit a document setting forth “terms and conditions of negotiations” to the college’s president...(Snip)

 

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Christensen’s crime? Paragraph I of the demands puts it this way: “We demand the removal of Arne Christenson from the Advisory Board of The Institute for Freedom & Community. Given Mr. Christenson’s political views and values as a Christian Zionist, St. Olaf College risks his influence upon the speakers brought to the school, the educational offerings, faculty development workshops, and scholarships sanctioned by the Institute through financial means.”

We can stop right here in Paragraph I and cut this short. Rubbelke has done the job the Star Tribune refuses to do. Let it be noted that St. Olaf has disgraced itself bowing before this mob.

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WOW Never Saw This One Coming!!!

 

St. Olaf College president says racist note was 'fabricated'

Fox News

May 10 2016

 

A racist note found on the campus of St. Olaf College in northern Minnesota was "fabricated" and not a genuine threat to minority students, the school's president said Wednesday. 

David R. Anderson said in an email to students that the notes were apparently meant "to draw attentions to concern about the campus climate."

"We learned from the author's confession that the note was fabricated," Anderson wrote.

Citing student privacy laws, his emails did not name the author who confessed or say whether the person is a student or otherwise affiliated with the private Lutheran college. The student body is 74 percent white and 2 percent black.

 

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St Olaf is where Mr.n; and I met.  Many, many years ago.  We were both freshmen there.  Then he went to the AF Academy and I transferred to the U. of MN.  But St. Olaf will always occupy a soft spot in our hearts.  I'm sure there were no blacks there at all back then.