Thursday, April 14, 2011

Book Burning

Thesis: The Nazi book burning rallies were undertaken in an effort to preserve the cultural purity of Germany.

x- Witness to massive burning in the University of Berlin
x-Joseph Goebbels dictates allowed the Nazis to go into public and private libraries in order to censor literature
x- Propoganda minister himself witnesses the burnings
x- The burning is claimed to be a rebirthing of German values- a shedding of the Jewish intellectual age from German culture and an effort to purify German culture

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