The Russians are burning books that are unacceptable to the regime. That's what the Nazis started 91 years ago and then staged mass repression and the Holocaust. We remember how it was — in archival photos and videos

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The Russians are burning books that are unacceptable to the regime. That's what the Nazis started 91 years ago and then staged mass repression and the Holocaust. We remember how it was — in archival photos and videos

On the evening of May 10, 1933, in Berlin and many large cities, Nazi-led students burned tens of thousands of books that they declared “un-German.” Hundreds of works of German and world literature, as well as scientific works by Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, were banned. This became a symbol of the final establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in Germany. The persecution of artists quickly turned into the hunt for all those who disagreed wi…