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Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
URL: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/bookburning/

Description:
Companion to a traveling exhibit about book burning activities in Nazi Germany. Topics include the immediate American response, how "books figured prominently" in U.S. patriotic slogans during World War II, and later symbols of book burning. Features written and audio material about 58 authors whose works were burned. Authors include Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Jack London, Karl Marx, and Upton Sinclair. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

LII Topics: Censorship, Censorship, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Hitler & Nazi Party, Social Issues, World War II

Publisher:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Extra Keywords
WWII second two fahrenheit 451

LII Database Information:
Record 24452 created by Maria Brandt on 09/05/2007
Last modification on 09/10/2007
Published: 09/12/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24452

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