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19 June 2025

A US visitor present at the burning of Hirschfeld's library

 A US visitor present at the burning of Hirschfeld's library, asks what is happening:





"Ach! we are burning all the books of the Jews!" the woman told him enthusiastically.

"! see.  But it seems too bad to be burning the Bible," remarked the American professor.

The German woman was horrified.  "The Bible! Nein! Good God! Burning the Bible? Nein! Nein! Nein"

"But didn't the Jews write the Bible?"

"The Jews write the Bible!" The woman could hardly master her stupefaction.  "Nein! Nein! Dr. Martin Luther, he the Bible wrote - Ya! Ya! Ya!".

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This was in the Richmond New Leader, 15 July 1933. p10.

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