Nazi attack on 'Un-German' literature, 1933-1945
TitleThe Nazi attack on 'Un-German' literature, 1933-1945
Author
Call number363.310943/0001
Object number05223A
Place of publicationAmherst, Massachusetts, United States
PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press
Year of publication
2000
Physical descriptionpp9-46
MaterialArticle
Series titleStudies in print culture and the history of the book
ISBN1558492534
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust and the book' edited by Jonathan Rose pp9-46
Description
Discusses the symbolic, ideological and circumstantial connection between the burning of books and the burning of men. The Nazis viewed their ideological and racial enemies and their books as ineluctably one, the living and printed embodiment of the "un-German spirit" and the contemporary civilization they despised
