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Curator's Corner: The Book Burning in Hamburg in May 1933

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CURATOR’S CORNER

In this virtual “Curator’s Corner” from December 16, 2020, Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, talked about an image in our gallery that shows the burning of books in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1933. Organized by university students, the photograph captures a disturbing moment, early in the Nazi regime’s rise to power, when destroying “un-German” books was seen as supporting the German nation. If you missed this program you can watch it now on YouTube:

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