On the evening of June 17, 1933, books and magazines were also burned on the market square in Offenburg, mainly by members of the local Hitler Youth. A list of 28 privately owned books and libraries were destroyed. Which authors were affected and which texts were censored? Find out more at this lecture on July 10 at 7 pm!
The burning on the market square was by no means the end of the "purge", as the Nazis called their systematic culling, but the shredding of the libraries continued for the next few years.
This event in the Salmen is intended to commemorate the burning on June 17, 1933, the beginning of the intellectual shake-up of Germany in the National Socialist sense.
After an introduction to the topic, a number of works by authors labeled "un-German" will be briefly presented and passages will be read from them. Afterwards, the writings will be placed on a bookshelf and made available to visitors to the Salmen for personal reading along with selected other burnt works.
Advance ticket sales from June 26 during opening hours at the Salmen.
Reservations can be made at salmen@offenburg.de or by telephone on 0781 82-2701. Please note that reserved tickets must be collected at least 30 minutes before the start of the event, after which they will go on sale.
In cooperation with the Offenburg City Library and the Historischer Verein für Mittelbaden e.V.
The burning on the market square was by no means the end of the "purge", as the Nazis called their systematic culling, but the shredding of the libraries continued for the next few years.
This event in the Salmen is intended to commemorate the burning on June 17, 1933, the beginning of the intellectual shake-up of Germany in the National Socialist sense.
After an introduction to the topic, a number of works by authors labeled "un-German" will be briefly presented and passages will be read from them. Afterwards, the writings will be placed on a bookshelf and made available to visitors to the Salmen for personal reading along with selected other burnt works.
Advance ticket sales from June 26 during opening hours at the Salmen.
Reservations can be made at salmen@offenburg.de or by telephone on 0781 82-2701. Please note that reserved tickets must be collected at least 30 minutes before the start of the event, after which they will go on sale.
In cooperation with the Offenburg City Library and the Historischer Verein für Mittelbaden e.V.
This text was translated by an AI.
