The Burning of the Books
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Burning of the Books is an event in Nazi Germany on May 10, 1933 when the government ordered the mass burning of books.
[edit] List of authors targeted
This is a list of the most prominent authors whose books were singled out for burning.
- Albert Einstein
- Havelock Ellis
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- Sigmund Freud
- André Gide
- Franz Kafka
- Erich Kästner
- Helen Keller
- Alfred Kerr
- Jack London
- Heinrich Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Karl Marx
- Hugo Preuss
- Marcel Proust
- Walter Rathenau
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Margaret Sanger
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Upton Sinclair
- Jakob Wassermann
- H. G. Wells
- Stefan Zweig
- Emile Zola