WWII Office of War Information poster "Books Cannot Be Killed by Fire; Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas"
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Motivational Posters from Second World War.
Most World War 2 posters had a clear and definite educational, informational, war promotional or advertisement purpose but a few like this Vintage World War II government-issued poster titled Books are Weapons in the War of Ideas, are simply motivational. Designed to emphasize Nazi intolerance of other cultures the publishers hoped to help people appreciate the American ideas and ideals that we were fighting to protect. The 1942 Office of War Information poster by artist S. Broder features a quote from the respected United States President of that time Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
"Books cannot be killed by fire.
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever.No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons."
Famous Nazi Berlin Book Burning of May 10, 1933.
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1933 Nazi Book Burning |
A few months after Hitler became Germany's Chancellor in May of 1933, a torchlight parade of thousands of students and SA members reveled its way down Berlin's principal street to a square across from the University of Berlin where the parade ended and thousands of books and manuscripts were burned, some twenty thousand were eventually consumed by the fire. Among the destroyed were works of world famous writers such as Thomas and Henrich Mann, Albert Einstein, Emil Zola, Andre Gide, Marcel Proust, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Helen Keller and H. G. Wells. A student proclamation had declared that any book "which acts subversively on Germany's future or strikes at the root of German thought, the German home and the driving forces of German people" should be burned. This dramatic event out of the dark ages was captured in pictures and on film and broadcast around the world.
From findarticles.com... more information about this poster and the famous 1933 Nazi book burning and its effects Article: Books cannot be killed by fire: the German Freedom Library and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books as agents of cultural memory.More information about the famous 1933 Nazi book burning from www.historyplace.com/...
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