Culture in the Third Reich

Speeches of Goebbels on Culture (around the time of the book burning)

"While National Socialism brought about a new version and formulation of European culture, Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself. It is not only anti-bourgeois, it is anti-cultural. It means, in the final consequence, the absolute destruction of all economic, social, state, cultural, and civilizing advances made by western civilization for the benefit of a rootless and nomadic international clique of conspirators, who have found their representation in Jewry."

"In Berlin as in other university cities of Germany, "un-German" and immoral books were gathered and burned by students. The bonfire at Opernplatz in Berlin. Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels addresses the youth. "My fellow students, German men and women, the era of exaggerated Jewish intellectualism is now at an end. The triumph of the German revolution has cleared a path for the German way; and the future German man will not just be a man of books, but also a man of character and it is to this end we want to educate you. To have at an early age the courage to peer directly into the pitiless eyes of life. To repudiate the fear of death in order to gain again the respect for death. That is the mission of the young and therefore you do well at this late hour to entrust to the flames the intellectual garbage of the past. It is a strong, great and symbolic undertaking, an undertaking, which shall prove to all the world that the intellectual basis of the November Republic is here overturned; but that from its ruins will arise victorious the lord of a new spirit." (The Opernplatz in Berlin)

You can see the video footage in this link //http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005207, although I found it rather intoxicating (scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "View historical film footage".

Monument of the Book, Germany, 2006. It's nice when even for books you can erect monuments. It shows how Europeans have even explained away their own books, for not being "multicultural" enough.