Nazi book burning of 10 May 1933

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Nazi persecution campaign book burning censorship event

The Nazi book burning of 10 May 1933 was a coordinated campaign across Germany, including a major bonfire at Berlin’s Bebelplatz, in which students and authorities destroyed thousands of works deemed “un-German,” symbolizing the regime’s assault on intellectual and cultural freedom.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi persecution campaign ⓘ book burning ⓘ censorship event ⓘ
aim	intimidate intellectual and political opponents ⓘ purge German culture of "un-German" elements ⓘ
country	Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
date	1933-05-10 ⓘ
estimatedNumberOfBooksDestroyed	tens of thousands ⓘ
followedBy	persecution of authors and intellectuals ⓘ wider censorship of press and arts in Nazi Germany ⓘ
hasLegacy	annual commemorations and readings in Germany ⓘ memorial at Bebelplatz in Berlin ⓘ symbol in discussions of censorship and totalitarianism ⓘ
location	Bebelplatz, Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Breslau NERFINISHED ⓘ Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ Frankfurt am Main NERFINISHED ⓘ Göttingen NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ other German university towns ⓘ
movement	Nazi antisemitism ⓘ anti-communism ⓘ anti-liberalism ⓘ
notableSpeech	speech by Joseph Goebbels at Bebelplatz ⓘ
notableWorkDestroyed	works by Alfred Döblin ⓘ works by Bertolt Brecht ⓘ works by Erich Kästner ⓘ works by Erich Maria Remarque NERFINISHED ⓘ works by Ernest Hemingway ⓘ works by H. G. Wells ⓘ works by Heinrich Heine ⓘ works by Helen Keller ⓘ works by Jack London ⓘ works by Karl Marx NERFINISHED ⓘ works by Kurt Tucholsky ⓘ works by Lion Feuchtwanger ⓘ works by Sigmund Freud ⓘ works by Stefan Zweig NERFINISHED ⓘ works by Thomas Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ
organizer	German Student Union NERFINISHED ⓘ National Socialist German Students’ League NERFINISHED ⓘ
participant	German university students ⓘ Nazi officials ⓘ SA (Sturmabteilung) NERFINISHED ⓘ SS (Schutzstaffel) NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Nazi Gleichschaltung policies ⓘ Nazi cultural policy ⓘ
precededBy	Nazi seizure of power in January 1933 ⓘ
slogan	"Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist" NERFINISHED ⓘ
supportedBy	Joseph Goebbels NERFINISHED ⓘ Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazi Party NERFINISHED ⓘ
symbolizes	assault on cultural pluralism ⓘ assault on intellectual freedom ⓘ rise of Nazi totalitarianism ⓘ
target	Jewish authors ⓘ Marxist literature ⓘ books deemed "un-German" ⓘ liberal literature ⓘ pacifist literature ⓘ socialist literature ⓘ works by exiled German authors ⓘ works critical of militarism ⓘ works critical of nationalism ⓘ works on psychoanalysis ⓘ works on sexual reform ⓘ

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Bebelplatz → notableEvent → Nazi book burning of 10 May 1933 ⓘ