This exhibition will be on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and will be funded through the generosity of friends of North Georgia College & State University. Since 1991, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's traveling exhibitions have been to more than 175 cities in 48 U.S. states, as well as Canada and Germany. The Museum's exhibitions have been presented at a wide variety of institutions and have served communities of all sizes, from the smallest towns to largest cities.
On May 10, 1933, university students across Nazi Germany burned thousands of books in an ominous "cleansing" of the "un-German spirit" from German culture. Writings by scores of German and foreign authors, including Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway, and Sigmund Freud, were consumed in were consumed in spectacularly staged bonfires.. Americans quickly condemned the events as hostile to the spirit of democracy and the freedom of expression.
Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings explores how the book burnings became a potent symbol in America's battle against Nazism and why they continue to resonate with the public - in film, literature, and political discourse - to this day.
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