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Literature of the Third Reich
Bentley, Eric Russell | February 6, 1943 issue

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The article discusses Nazi literature. The Nazis began getting rid of their literary enemies the moment they came to power. In May, 1933, they publicly burned all the books which good Nazis are not supposed to read. This event is thus described in an official history of literature: "The fire of the pyres which flared up in German lands in May, 1933, is to us a sign and symbol of an in- flexible will to purity. . . ." On June 7, 1933, there took place the first meeting of the purged Writers' Section of the Prussian Academy of Arts, of which German writer Heinrich Mann had been president.

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NAZI literature; AUTHORS; MANN, Heinrich, 1871-1950; AUTHORSHIP; BOOKS; WRITING
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