Authors condemned at a Nazi book-burning, 10 May 1933

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Quoted text copyright © 1999 by Klaus P. Fischer

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"Völkischer Beobachter" "Populist Observer"
Ausgabe A/Norddeutsche Ausgabe Edition A/ North-Germany Edition
Berlin, Freitag, 12 mai 1933 Berlin, Friday, 12 May 1933


A more detailed list of authors publicly condemned at the 10 May bookburning was given in
Fischer, Klaus P., The History of an Obsession: German Judeophobia and the Holocaust, Continuum, New York, 1998; pp. 238-289.
Fischer in turn cited
Ritchie, J. M., German Literature Under National Socialism, Barnes & Noble, Totowa NJ, 1983: pp. 68-69.

First Speaker:
Against class struggle and materialism, for Volk community and idealism,
I commit to the flames the works of Marx
1 and Kautsky2.

Second Speaker:
Against decadence and moral decay, for discipline and morality in family and state,
I commit to the flames the works of Heinrich Mann3, Ernst Glaeser4, and Erich Kästner5.

#3
Against political irresponsibility an political betrayal, for dedication to Volk and State,
I commit to the flames the works of the pacifist Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster.

#4
Against the exaggeration of unconscious urges based on destructive analysis of the psyche, for the nobility of the human soul,
I commit to the flames the works of Sigmund Freud.

#5
Against falsification of our history and denigration of its great figures, for respect of our past,
I commit to the flames the writing of Emil Ludwig6 and Werner Hegemann7.

#6
Against un-German journalism of a Jewish democratic kind, for responsible cooperation in the work of national reconstruction,
I commit to the flames the works of Theodor Wolff and Georg Bernhard.

#7
Against literary betrayal of the soldiers of the First World War, for the education of the people in the spirit of truthfulness,
I commit to the flames the works of Erich Maria Remarque.

#8
Against conceited debasement of our German language, for the cultivation of our most precious property of the people,
I commit to the flames the writings of Alfred Kerr9.

#9
Against impudence and presumptousnness! For awe and respect before our immortal German Volk spirit! Devour, flames, the writings of Tucholsky8 and Ossietzky10.


Footnotes

Some of the biographical notes below are extracted from "Encyclopedia Britannica," or from "Brockhaus." Any errors are mine.


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