In his 1989 movie, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” Steven Spielberg has a remarkable scene of Nazi book burning. The looks of ecstasy as the actors-playing-Germans parade past Hitler and ...

Book burning is symbolized in a very gruesome way by the infamous Nazi book burning. This was in May of 1933. It was organized by Joseph Goebbels. It occurred on several campuses around Germany.

At Berlin’s Humboldt University, where the 1933 book burning originated, Nazi crimes are downplayed and justified. “Hitler was no psychopath, and he wasn’t vicious.

When the HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 premieres on Saturday, the movie will introduce a contemporary twist to the centuries-long history of burning books — one in which ...

Even though book burnings had taken place before in Europe, notably during the Spanish Inquisition when 5,000 Arabic manuscripts were burned in Granada in 1499, Professor Evans called the Nazi ...

The Nazis held their first book burning on May 10, 1933, destroying texts they deemed “un-German,” including those by Jewish, liberal and leftist authors. Eighty-eight years later, Philadelphia ...

The book burning, conducted by people affiliated with German universities, was designed to purge what the book-burners called un-German literature. “Literary and philosophical works that did not ...

Thousands of books smolder in a Nazi bonfire, 1933. The burnings were conducted by the German Student Association of Nazi Germany. | Shutterstock Months after the war to end all wars came to a ...

The impact of Nazi book-burning today. After the library was burned down, much of Hirschfeld’s and his colleagues’ work was lost forever. But eventually, ...

When Ava DuVernay decided to tackle Nazi book burnings for her upcoming film “Origin,” the filmmaker didn’t want to re-create the event in a Hollywood backlot — she chose to film in the ...

In that video, Peters touts Adolf Hitler as “a hero” for the horrific Nazi book burnings of the 1930s, calling the violent display of cultural erasure “awesome.” ...