![Ernest Hemingway aboard the boat Pilar, ca. 1950. [LCID: lc304]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/55d43455-8db6-4817-9d8e-ef3391311e15.jpg)
Author Ernest Hemingway aboard the boat Pilar, ca. 1950.
In 1933, Nazi students at more than 30 German universities pillaged libraries in search of books they considered to be "un-German." Among the literary and political writings they threw into the flames were the works of Ernest Hemingway.
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