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Beginning on May 10, 1933, Nazi-dominated student groups carried out public burnings of books they claimed were “un-German.” The authors and creators of these works were quickly black-listed across Germany. Explore more content about these banned authors, including Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Helen Keller, and Ernest Hemingway. 

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Alfred Kerr
Ernest Hemingway, among the greatest American novelists, was a member of the "Lost Generation" of expatriate writers who were disillusioned ... [LCID: 69065]
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American novelist Ernest Hemingway
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Anna Seghers
Arnold Zweig in Paris, 1949 [LCID: 90769]
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Arnold Zweig
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August Bebel
Max Brod, a Czech-born Jewish author and composer who wrote in the German language. [LCID: 00304]
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Author and composer Max Brod
Thomas Mann, seen here in Germany before the war, was a noted German novelist and Nobel Laureate. [LCID: 69034]
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Author Thomas Mann
At Berlin's Opernplatz, the burning of books and other printed materials considered "un-German" by members of the SA and students ... [LCID: 68984]
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Ben Hecht
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Benjamin Barr Lindsey
Bertolt Brecht, author of the "Threepenny Opera" and a well-known leftist poet and dramatist, who emigrated from Germany in 1933. [LCID: 01441]
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (left), Marxist poet and dramatist, was a staunch opponent of the Nazis. [LCID: 1441]
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (left), Marxist poet and dramatist, was a staunch opponent of the Nazis. [LCID: 1441]
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Bertolt Brecht
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Carl von Ossietzky
Haim Yelin, a young Yiddish author, headed the underground organization of fighters in the Kovno ghetto. [LCID: 14855]
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Chaim Yelin
Close-up portrait of Hebrew and Yiddish author Itzhak Katzenelson in the Vittel internment camp. [LCID: 81640]
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Close-up portrait of Hebrew and Yiddish author Itzhak Katzenelson in the Vittel internment camp
Sigmund Freud: Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse, cover [LCID: freudl]
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Cover of a work by Sigmund Freud

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