Bertolt Brecht
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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes
Brecht in 1954
Brecht's birthplace in Augsburg
Brecht's house in Santa Monica, 1063 26th Street (2014)
Brecht and Weigel on the roof of the Berliner Ensemble during the International Workers' Day demonstrations in 1954
Nazi book burnings
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The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as be
Book burning in Berlin, 10 May 1933
Examples of books burned by the Nazis on display at Yad Vashem
Joseph Goebbels speaking at a political rally against the Lausanne Conference (1932)
Burnt remains of a book-burning target, Le Marquis de Sade et Son Temps (Marquis de Sade and his times). Part of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection