German students gather around books they regard as "un-German." [LCID: 71188]
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Germans gather around books they regard as "un-German"

Germans crowd around a truck filled with "un-German" books, confiscated from the library of the Institute for Sexual Science, for burning by the Nazis.  The books were publically burned at Berlin's Opernplatz (Opera Square). Berlin, Germany, May 10, 1933.

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