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Burning books
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ISBN: 9780230553286 0230553281 134936309X 9786612050428 1282050427 0230583660 Year: 2008 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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The Nazi burning of the books in 1933 was one of the most infamous political spectacles of the twentieth century. In Berlin and all over Germany, Nazi officials and students organized elaborate parades and bonfires to mark their embrace of Hitler’s new government. Book burning has since become the symbol of any oppressive regime, and a modern taboo. As Heinrich Heine is often quoted: ‘Where one burns books, one will soon burn people’. This original and provocative new work examines the impact of these fires, concentrating on the years between the Nazi outrages and the publication of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, a period in which book burning took hold of the popular imagination. Much more than simply the study of a single shocking event, Burning Books explores how deeply embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural and literary history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.


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A universal history of the destruction of books: from ancient Sumer to modern-day Iraq
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ISBN: 9781934633014 1934633011 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Atlas

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A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the widespread looting of libraries in post-war Iraq, the leveling of the Library of Alexandria, book burnings by Crusaders and Nazis, and censorship against authors past and present. With diligence and grace, Báez mounts a compelling investigation into the motives behind the destruction of books, reading man's violence against writing as a perverse anti-creation. His findings ultimately attest to the lasting power of books as the great human repository of knowledge and memory, fragile yet vital bulwarks against the intransigence and barbarity of every age.--From publisher description.


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Livres pillés, lectures surveillées : les bibliothèques françaises sous l'Occupation
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ISBN: 9782070122950 2070122956 Year: 2008 Volume: *272 Publisher: Paris: Gallimard,

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On sait l'ampleur des pillages des collections, d'art en France par l'occupant nazi. Nul n'ignore plus l'existence des listes Otto - recensant les auteurs, juifs ou antinazis, qui devaient être à jamais bannis de tout catalogue - et que le syndicat des éditeurs français appliqua dès les premières heures de l'Occupation avec un zèle certain. Personne, avant Martine Poulain, ne s'était inquiété du devenir des bibliothèques dans la France de 1940 à 1944. Une France qui est à la fois celle de l'occupant nazi et celle du régime de Vichy. A la différence des archives des ministères (Guerre, Affaire, étrangères, Intérieur, justice) et des musées, peu de bibliothèques publiques sont l'objet du pillage par l'occupant, à l'exception des alsaciennes et des mosellanes, germanisées et propriétés du Reich. Le vol de masse, nazi mais aussi vichyste. frappe, dès juin 1940, les bibliothèques institutionnelles - juives, slaves, maçonnes - mais aussi privées, celles des premiers ennemis du Reich (les grandes familles juives, les Allemands exilés, les hommes politiques du Front populaire). Puis le pillage accompagne ordinairement les rafles. Plus de dix millions de livres prennent le chemin de l'Allemagne. Martine Poulain a constitué une première liste des personnes spoliées de leur bibliothèque - près de 1 700 noms. Le régime de Vichy, de son côté, surveille les livres, les bibliothèques et les lecteurs, sous la houlette d'une Bibliothèque nationale devenue le parangon de l'ordre nouveau, instrument de la collaboration d'Etat aux mains de Bernard Faÿ. Ce dernier mène une lutte obsessionnelle contre la franc maçonnerie sous couvert d'un "Musée des sociétés secrètes".

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Libraries --- Books and reading --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Prohibited books --- Anti-Jewish propaganda --- Bibliothèques --- Livres et lecture --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Livres prohibés --- Propagande antisémite --- History --- Destruction and pillage --- Censorship --- Histoire --- Destruction et pillage --- Censure --- Guerre mondiale, 2e, --- France --- --Occupation --- --Bibliothèque --- --Pillage --- --Censorship --- Confiscations and contributions --- 024.8 --- 02 <44> --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" --- 355.012 --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Bibliotheekwezen--Frankrijk --- Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- Oorlogsmisdaden --- 355.012 Oorlogsmisdaden --- 02 <4> "1940/1945" Bibliotheekwezen--Europa--?"1940/1945" --- 02 <44> Bibliotheekwezen--Frankrijk --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Bibliothèques --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Livres prohibés --- Propagande antisémite --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Book censorship --- Books --- Literature --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Law and legislation --- --Occupation allemande --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Libraries - Censorship - France - History - 20th century --- Censorship - France - History - 20th century --- World War, 1939-1945 - Confiscations and contributions - France --- Guerre mondiale, 2e, 1939-1945 --- Occupation allemande --- Bibliothèque --- Pillage --- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) --- 1900-1945

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