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The Burning of the Books is an event in Nazi Germany on May 10, 1933 when the government ordered the mass burning of books.

List of authors targeted[]

This is a list of the most prominent authors whose books were singled out for burning.

  • Albert Einstein
  • Havelock Ellis
  • Lion Feuchtwanger
  • Sigmund Freud
  • André Gide
  • Franz Kafka
  • Erich Kästner
  • Helen Keller
  • Alfred Kerr
  • Jack London
  • Heinrich Mann
  • Thomas Mann
  • Karl Marx
  • Hugo Preuss
  • Marcel Proust
  • Walter Rathenau
  • Erich Maria Remarque
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Arthur Schnitzler
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Jakob Wassermann
  • H. G. Wells
  • Stefan Zweig
  • Emile Zola

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