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4IA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1933.ALL LITERATURE NOT PRO-GERMAN DESTROYEDUTEis Have For;S OF OLVEDBe Inbreakit10. up) red war : eleven the two o borderBerlin. May 10. (/P)—Books of Helen Keller. Franz Boas and Jack London as we LI aa hundreds of Ger--man authors went up in smoke throughout Germany tonight.The spectacle was staged by uni-vlrsity young men and women, who, pronouncing judgment on world literature considered as contravening German spirit, started huge bonfires of the volumes shortly before midnight.Dr. Joseph Goebbels. minister of public enlightenment and propaganda. gave the government’s blessings and declared that the period of Jewish intellectualism now has ended.The weird glow illuminated opera square opposite Berlin University as the students, garbed in the picturesque costumes of their fraternities. the Nazi brown or the Steclhelmet grey, threw a thousand torches on the pyre, then seized the books from trucks and hurled them into the blaae amid cheers.The names of German writers such as Heinrich Mann. Emil Ludwig. Erich Remarque. Thedor Wolff and George Bernhard were read out j as their writings were consigned to !the fire.SWEEPSCumberland \ in Latest HitSPRING STO HAVE CLAII Relief EffortsIes of Com Terrific 'st form-300,000 forests the in-iher na-Tn ennui nini/ unLivingston. TfA macl May tornKentucky-TenneValley last mid | tolj of 50 and ir j spring storms’' than 250. j Kentucky replt; ] Monroe. Adair ; ties and Tennes. i in Overton cm in
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Thu, May 11, 1933
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