[Libs-Or] Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings

[Wyma Rogers]

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Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectu
al_Freedom3/Banned_Books_Week/Book_Burning/bookburning_hm.doc
"In light of the historical actions of the American Library Association
(ALA) and libraries across the country in response to the Nazi book
burnings, we are proud to share news of a new exhibition at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C."

See also
In 1943, midway through World War II, the U.S. Office of War
Information used this poster to help Americans understand why we were
fighting.
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectu
al_Freedom3/Banned_Books_Week/Book_Burning/holocaust_poster.pdf
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
http://www.ushmm.org/

Book Burning
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectu
al_Freedom3/Banned_Books_Week/Book_Burning/Book_Burning.htm

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human
beings." (German: ""Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am
Ende auch Menschen.")*Heinrich Heine, from his play Almansor (1821)