PHOTOS: 11 Horrific Book Burnings In History

May 10, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 11 Horrific Book Burnings In History Eighty years ago today, 40,000 people gathered in the Opernplatz in Berlin to witness one of the most famous book burnings in history. Books by authors including Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht and Karl Marx, as well as Ernest Hemingway, Jack London and Thomas Mann were burnt at a Nazi gathering on May 10th 1933 attended by Joseph Goebbels, according to the website of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. It was just one event in a timeline of significant book burnings in history. Continue reading... LeVar Burton Teaches Colbert & Carey Mulligan About 'Gatsby' WATCH: David Sedaris Makes Jon Stewart Lose It Are Writers Unable To Read For Pleasure? IMAGES: What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book Covers? PHOTOS: 11 Horrific Book Burnings In History 15 Inspirational F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes IMAGES: What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book Covers? 'My Dad Reviewed 10,496 Books' IMAGES: What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book Covers? 13 Vintage Words You Should Be Using Right Now Tequila Mockingbird: 7 Literary Cocktail Recipes MARIANNE SCHNALL Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom "If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England, you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things. And I could even dare to be somebody." Continue reading... DANIEL GRANT The Stories That Only Artists Can Tell Biographers often find it amusing to note the job an artist had before becoming able to live off the sales of their artwork, but for artists those jobs are not just anecdotes. Continue reading... JONATHAN KIM ReThink Review: The Great Gatsby -- Classic Literature in 3-D With a cast of largely baby-faced actors, Jay-Z as an executive producer, and a soundtrack weighted towards hip hop and electronic music, is The Great Gatsby more for younger fans of Luhrmann's more boisterous previous films like Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet? Continue reading... KEITH RUNYON The Fitzgeralds of Montgomery, Alabama Thirty-nine years ago, as a very young Courier-Journal reporter, I traveled south by train to Montgomery, Alabama, to connect with the world that novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, knew in the early part of the 20th century. Continue reading... ALICE HOFFMAN A Day for Mothers and Daughters If we could somehow time-travel and meet our mothers when they were 8-year-olds who were afraid of thunder storms, or college students in love with the wrong man, or young mothers-to-be awaiting our births, all that we believe that we know would likely replaced by a different vision. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003