![Helen Keller, ca. 1910. [LCID: 69030]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/094e302b-52be-456f-8fb5-36bfe8950aad.jpg)
Portrait of Helen Keller, ca. 1910.
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 Helen Keller.
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