| Places | |
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| Accession Number | ARTV02812 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Sheet: 71 cm x 50.7 cm |
| Object type | Poster |
| Physical description | offset lithograph on paper |
| Maker |
Unknown Office of War Information U.S. Government Printing Office |
| Place made | United States of America: Washington DC |
| Date made | 1943 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Ten Years Ago: The Nazis Burned These Books
Description
United States Second World War poster. The poster compares the two forms of government of the belligerent nations: fascism for Germany and democracy for the United States. The Nazi book burnings, where the Nazis burned books that did not correspond with Nazi ideology, became emblematic of Germany's repressive ideological regime. This poster contrasts German political constraints with the United States's freedom of speech. For the Nazi party, burning books that spread messages that were deemed against their ideologies (including almost every text written by or relating to Jewish people) was a common activity, with the most notorious of these acts undertaken at the Babelplatz (formerly Opernplatz) in Berlin on 8 April 1933.
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