Word: breslau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Germany similar pyres blazed with similar books. In the Romerberg, Frankfurt's medieval marketplace, a band played Chopin's Funeral March during the firing. In Munich only 100 books were burned, yanked from the shelves of the University library. Breslau boasted that it burned 5,000 Ib. of heretical works, Kiel burned 2,000 volumes...
...Vilna. ''Revenge yourselves on the Jews!" they cried. "They were responsible for Waclawski's death!" They fell to fighting, injured 25 Jews, trampled girl students. The trepidating rector had the University closed for three days. Rigid policing alone prevented disorder. Rioting broke out also in Breslau, Cracow, Posen, Lemberg...
There were plenty of other split pates in Germany last Sunday. In Ketschdorf, near Breslau. a squadron of regular cavalry was called out to capture a band of 150 Communists who had barricaded themselves in an inn after waylaying a truckload of Nazis. There were brawls in Berlin, Cologne, Munich. The situation was serious enough for both Chancellor von Papen and Adolf Hitler to go out to East Neudeck and confer earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg. First reports were that martial law was about to be declared throughout Germany. Correspondents waited but no announcement appeared. Another story was generally...
...police won't support us, we'll boot them to Hell!" screamed Herr Edmund Heines, a Fascist member of the German Reichstag speaking at Breslau. "In one month we'll be the police...
This is the final Goethe Festival meeting, marking the climax of a series which has been held during February and March. The previous speakers were Dr. Eugen Kuehneman, professor of Philosophy at the University of Breslau, Dr. Gerhart Hauptmann, foremost German playwright, and Dr. Friedrich von der Leyen of the University of Cologue, professor of German Art and Literature...