NOTE: This event has already taken place.
On 8 May, the anniversary of the exemption from National Socialism, the SDS is organising a "reading against forgetting" from 12 - 2 pm, during which texts from books that were burned by the Nazis in 1933 will be read aloud.
The reading will take place directly in front of the SSC and the cafeteria, or in Café Chaos if the weather is bad.
The book burnings in Germany from March to October 1933 were a series of actions planned and staged by the NSDAP and some of its sub-organisations, such as the Hitler Youth, the SA or the German Student Body, in which students, professors and members of National Socialist party organs threw the works of ostracised authors into the fire. A key event was the highly publicised propaganda campaign organised by the National Socialist German Student Association (NSDStB) on 10 May 1933 on what was then Berlin's Opernplatz, now Bebelplatz, which took place simultaneously at 18 other German universities. These book burnings were the culmination of the "Action against the un-German spirit". Following their "seizure of power", the National Socialists used it to launch the systematic persecution of Jewish, Marxist, pacifist and other oppositional or politically unpopular writers and to initiate a shift towards National Socialist education.
