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History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas

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Helen Keller writes to the Nazi students who are soon to burn her books

History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas Helen Keller writes to the Nazi students who are soon to burn her books Shaun Usher May 09, 2022 76 4 1 Share NY Evening Post, 10.5.33. Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind. Beginning May 10th, 1933, as part of a nationwide, coordinated purge, students at various universities across Nazi Germany began to remove all books deemed “un-German” from their institutions. Those volumes were then piled high in public areas and set alight as thousands watched and cheered , the crowds in some cases addressed by prominent figures

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