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National Socialist Book Burnings 1933
Digital Humanities, Culture and LanguageResearchers: Daniel Burckhardt, Julia Kleinschmidt, Werner Treß
Duration: 2022-2023
Based on the "Library of Burned Books" developped at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in 2008 and the website www.verbrannte-buecher.de, the digitization project "Digital Library of Burned Books" is being created on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the student book burnings. It commemorates the beginning of the systematic persecution of Jewish, Marxist, pacifist and other politically dissenting writers immediately after the transfer of power to the National Socialists.
For the purpose of this project, the existing online content is being comprehensively revised and supplemented by a digital edition of public domain works. The representative selection initially includes around 20 books from the original list of 316 titles. These publications will be made available free of charge on the website and freely reusable for download in PDF format. Short introductions briefly explain the content of the work, the historical context, and the reasons for its classification at the time as a "forbidden" or "burned" book. The books will be supplemented by short biographies of the authors.