Buecherverbrennung-flugblatt

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eigenes Foto eines Faksimiles, ausgestellt im Theodor-Heuss-Haus Stuttgart; Original: Staatsarchiv Würzburg, Akten der Deutschen Studentenschaft, I 21 C 14/I

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Flyer or poster issued by the German Student Union (German: Die Deutsche Studentenschaft), distributed in the spring of 1933 to justify the plundering of unwanted literature in Nazi Germany and the subsequent Nazi book burnings. The text expresses the so called "12 Theses against the Un-German Spirit", published on April 12, 1933. Instead of well-founded theses, it contains only the positions and goals of the "Action" or campaign (Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist) and denounces Jewish, social democratic, communist, and liberal ideas as well as their representatives. The "theses" were posted in red Fraktur script at German universities and printed by many newspapers.

English translation:

Against the Un-German Spirit!

1. Language and literature are rooted in the people. The German people bear the responsibility to ensure that their language and literature are a purer and unadulterated expression of their national identity.

2. There is a contradiction today between literature and German national identity. This state of affairs is a disgrace.

3. Purity of language and literature lies with you! Your people have entrusted the language to you for faithful preservation.

4. Our most dangerous adversary is the Jew and those who are subservient to him.

5. The Jew can only think in a Jewish manner. When he writes in German, he lies. The German who writes in German but thinks in an un-German way is a traitor. The student who speaks and writes in an un-German manner is also thoughtless and disloyal to his duty.

6. We want to eradicate lies, we want to brand treason, we want for the student not places of thoughtlessness but of discipline and political education.

7. We want to respect the Jew as a stranger, and we want to take national identity seriously. Therefore, we demand from censorship: Jewish works appear in Hebrew. If they appear in German, they must be labeled as translations. The strictest measures against the misuse of the German script. German script is only available to Germans. The un-German spirit will be eradicated from public libraries.

8. We demand from the German student the will and ability for independent knowledge and decision-making.

9. We demand from the German student the will and ability to preserve the purity of the German language.

10. We demand from the German student the will and ability to overcome Jewish intellectualism and the associated liberal signs of decay in German intellectual life.

11. We demand the selection of students and professors based on the security of thinking in the German spirit.

12. We demand the German university as a stronghold of German national identity and as a battleground fueled by the power of the German spirit.

The German Student Union.

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