On May 10, 1933, Nazi students at universities across Germany pillaged and burned books they claimed were “un-German.”
Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms—a fictional love story that realistically depicts the horrors of war—was among the works destroyed. The novel’s message contradicted that of the Nazis, who glorified war.
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