A Report on the Duty Journey through Poland from the 4 th – 16 th [more]

Prelude to Genocide On 10. May 1933, 20.000 books were burnt in the then Opernplatz, later Bebel Platz, adjacent to the Berlin Opera House. Among the authors whose books were burnt were Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Mann, Albert Einstein, H.G. Wells, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Helen Keller, Andre Gide, Marcel Proust, Emil Zola, and Sigmund Freud. "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings“ - Heinrich Heine [more]