Authorities in the eastern German border city of Görlitz on Saturday pledged to take action against those who burnt as yet ...

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

Photo from the Nazi book burning at Bebelsplatz (Opernplatz), Berlin on May 10, 1933, orchestrated by the Nazi party and the German Student Union as part of their propaganda campaign “Action against ...

When Ava DuVernay decided to tackle Nazi book burnings for her upcoming film “Origin,” the filmmaker didn’t want to re-create the event in a Hollywood backlot — she chose to film in the exact location ...

The persecution of authors and ceremonial book burnings let the Nazis to stifle free speech in Germany. strixcode Getty Images/iStockphoto This week, the national spotlight was once again on Florida — ...

THE SLEEPWALKERS (648 pp.)—Hermann Broch—Pantheon ($5). If any readers have any nostalgic hankerings for the literary days of the early ’30s, The Sleepwalkers should make them think again. Its reissue ...

Gray Fitzgerald lives in Concord and was formerly a United Church of Christ pastor. I knew about the book burnings in Nazi Germany. It’s embarrassing, but I have to confess: I didn’t really understand ...