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History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas

Helen Keller writes to the Nazi students who are soon to burn her books

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Shaun Usher
May 09, 2022
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NY Evening Post, 10.5.33. Courtesy of the American Foundation for the Blind.

Beginning May 10th, 1933, as part of a nationwide, coordinated purge, students at various universities across Nazi Germany began to remove all books deemed “un-German” from their institutions. Those volumes were then piled high in public areas and set alight as thousands watche…

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