Cultural break: Book burning on June 17, 1933 on 12.6.2025, 12:30 p.m.

Der Salmen
Offenburg, Germany
Buchcover: Im Westen nichts Neues © Benjamin Fünfgeld
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Initiated by the regional leader of the Baden Hitler Youth, Friedhelm Kemper, such actions also took place in smaller towns after the book burnings at universities in 1933. On the evening of June 17, 1933, so-called "filth and trash" literature was burned at the stake on Offenburg's market square. This included Erich Maria Remarque's "Nothing New in the West" and books by Erich Kästner. The Hitler Youth had previously collected the material from Offenburg's public and private libraries.
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