Book burning
Creator(s)
- Paramount News (Producer)
- Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Scope and Content
Paramount News Issue 84. University students collect and burn "un-German" books. Various INT CUs as black-listed works are gathered. CU, books to be destroyed. 01:02:08 Night scenes showing torchlight procession and books being thrown into bonfire (familiar scenes). Various shots. At night, crowd gathered outside building. Lights directed at building, parade, crowd heiling.
Note(s)
Grinberg record indicates that there is supposed to be sound, an off-screen voice explaining the destruction of the condemned books written by world-famous authors as well as crowd cheering. The USHMM version does not have sound.
Subjects
- YOUTH GROUPS
- HITLER YOUTH
- BOOKS
- PARADES
- CROWDS
- FIRES
- NIGHT
- BOOK BURNINGS
- SA (STURMABTEILUNG)
- GERMANY
- TORCHES
Places
- Berlin, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Newsreels.