Reasons given for the ban included “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman, according to The Associated Press. Juliet pastor and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Greg Locke” held a book burning in the days after a Tennessee school board voted to ban “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust. Juliet, Tennessee, which is a suburb of Nashville.Īccording to Nashville Scene, “Mt. In 1954, he poured his experiences into a Yiddish book titled And the. “Yes to decency and morality in family and state! I consign to the flames the writings of Heinrich Mann, Ernst Gläser, Erich Kästner.” The 2022 Picture Night - A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family.the death of his innocence.and the death of his God. For a decade, he worked as a journalist and refused to even discuss The Holocaust.
On the evening of May 10, in most university towns, right-wing students marched in torchlight parades “against the un-German spirit.” The scripted rituals called for high Nazi officials, professors, university rectors, and university student leaders to address the participants and spectators.Īt the meeting places, students threw the pillaged and “unwanted” books onto bonfires with great ceremony, band-playing, and so-called “fire oaths.” In Berlin, some 40,000 persons gathered in the Opernplatz to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!” Goebbels enjoined the crowd. In a symbolic act of ominous significance, on May 10, 1933, university students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of “un-German” books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture.
The museum described it as “perhaps the most famous book burning in history”: Holocaust Memorial Museum/National Archives and Records Administration
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