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The Day Germany Burned Books: 1933 and the Death of Ideas
On May 10, 1933, students and professors in 34 German cities gathered to burn tens of thousands of books. This episode zooms in on the Berlin book burning at Opernplatz, where Joseph Goebbels gave a chilling speech as flames consumed works by Freud, Einstein, Mann, Remarque, and others. We explore how the Nazi regime orchestrated these fires as a purification ritual, targeting 'un-German' thought. We meet the student leaders who organized the purges, the authors who fled or were silenced, and the librarian who watched in horror. We ask: what did the Nazis actually burn (not just the…
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