Word: ungerman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rainy day in Berlin, five years ago, Adolf Hitler's monoliterate Nazis solemnly heaped up a bonfire of books, solemnly burned them to death. Among the victims of this auto-da-fé were the books of such great Germans as Thomas Mann, as well as such "unGerman" writers as Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Judge Ben Lindsey. Drizzling skies kept the bonfire from blazing, but the smoke of it still stinks in democratic nostrils. Last week, with plans afoot for the next session of the International Congress of Book Publishers, to be held this year at Leipzig...
...would be politically safe this year for them to celebrate Christmas. Taking up this vital question, Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler's black-uniformed Special Guard, which consistently baits Jews, Catholics, Protestants, last week assured Germans that they might observe Christmas without being guilty of "unGerman practices," It asserted: "Christmas is no intellectual property of the Christian confessions. They simply borrowed it without asking permission. . . . This holiday is the exclusive property of Germans...