Tag Archives: Censorship

School Book Bans

Posted on October 25, 2026 by Allen Mesch

Book Burnings The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as … Continue reading →

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Burning and Banning Books

Posted on November 26, 2021 by Allen Mesch

The first large burning came on 6 May 1933. The German Student Union made an organized attack on Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sex Research. Its library and archives of around 20,000 books and journals were publicly hauled out and burned in … Continue reading →

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