Book Burning

German students gather around books they regard as ...

Uniformed Nazi party officials carrying ...

Students and members of the SA unload books deemed ...

Across Germany, Students took books by truck, ...

Crowds gather at Berlin's Opernplatz for the ...

Book burning in Berlin. Germany, May 10, 1933.

At Berlin's Opernplatz, the burning of books and ...

Public burning of "un-German" books in the Opernplatz.

Students and members of the SA with armfuls of ...

In Hamburg, members of the SA and students from ...

At Berlin's Opernplatz, an SA man throws books ...

Public burning of "un-German" books in the Opernplatz.

At Berlin's Opernplatz, crowds of German students ...

Joseph Goebbels, German propaganda minister, ...

Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels (at podium) ...

German students gather around books they regard as "un-German." The books will be publically burned at Berlin's Opernplatz. Berlin, Germany, May 10, 1933.

— National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.