![Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, 1929 cover. [LCID: heming]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0fd1f02c-db24-4111-9362-bdb40e54585c.jpg)
Cover of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. (1929 cover. Princeton University Library.)
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 during the book burning were the works of Ernest Hemingway.
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