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A Weird Glow Illuminated Opera Square in Berlin
Berlin
- Date
- 1939, May 22
- Location
- Berlin
- Country
- Germany
- Material
- Silver gelatin print on glossy paper, handwritten annotation in black pencil
- Size
- 17 (18) x 21,5 (22,9) cm
- Artist
- Associated Press Photo
Description
verso labeled in typeset: A weird glow illuminated Opera square in Berlin as students, garbed in the costumes of their corps, threw a thousand torches on the bonfire, then seized "un-German" books from trucks and hurled them into the blaze amid cheers. The writings of some of Germany's best known authors, as well as many of other lands, such as Helen Keller, Jack London and Franz Boas, were consigned to the flames.—Associated Press Photo.
Stamped: May 22 1933; Return to Library; Associated Press Photo;
Handwritten: Germany; 9139