{"id":10361,"date":"2013-05-10T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2013-05-10T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:14:11","slug":"80-years-ago-451-fahrenheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/80-years-ago-451-fahrenheit\/","title":{"rendered":"80 Years Ago, @ 451 Fahrenheit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"teaserbreit\"<\/a>A day not to be forgotten: Eighty years ago, on 10 May 1933<\/strong> in a number of cities throughout the so-called Third Reich, the Nazis publicly burned the books (upwards of 25,000)\u00a0of many writers, mong them Kurt\u00a0Tucholsky, Ossietzky,\u00a0Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Heinrich Mann, Erich K\u00e4stner & Bertolt Brecht.\u00a0<\/span>A good number of\u00a0intellectuals\u00a0left the country \u2014 the\u00a0consequences still detectable today.<\/p>\n

Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels enjoyed the event & in Berlin addressed the students responsible for much of the action: \u201cYes to decency and morality in family and state! I consign to the flames the writings of\u00a0Heinrich Mann<\/a>,\u00a0Ernst Gl\u00e4ser<\/a>,\u00a0Erich K\u00e4stner<\/a>.\u00a0The era of extreme Jewish\u00a0intellectualism<\/a>\u00a0is now at an end. The breakthrough of the German revolution has again cleared the way on the German path…The future German man will not just be a man of books, but a man of character. It is to this end that we want to educate you. As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death – this is the task of this young generation. And thus you do well in this midnight hour to commit to the flames the evil spirit of the past. This is a strong, great and\u00a0symbolic<\/a>\u00a0deed – a deed which should document the following for the world to know – Here the intellectual foundation of the\u00a0November Republic<\/a>\u00a0is sinking to the ground, but from this wreckage the\u00a0phoenix<\/a>\u00a0of a new spirit will triumphantly rise.”<\/p>\n

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