Nazi Germany 1933-05-10 Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist Book burning Opera Square Berlin Goebbels speech SS

MAY 10 1933

Photo of Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, giving a speech on the Opera Square ( Opernplatz, Bebelplatz ) in Berlin on May 10, 1933, taken during the nation-wide "Action against un-German Spirit" (German: Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist ), conducted by the German Student Union, in the spring of 1933, which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ( Säuberu