Book burning Quote by Dinesh D'Souza

“I have often wondered since if anything could have stemmed the tide at that time. The students saw in the Nazi promises a rising…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“Close to forty thousand Germans gathered in front of Berlin’s opera house on May 10, 1933, as a parade of swastika-wearing students and beer-hall…

— Walter Isaacson

“In the Hitler years we still believed in books enough to burn them. Imagine,”

— William T. Vollmann

“A short time before the war, some cultivated, intellectual, warm-hearted German friends of mine returned to Germany after living in the United States. In…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no…

— Noam Chomsky

“It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in…

— Ray Bradbury

“At the time of my matriculation at Berlin political issues were in an uproar. One professor after another was attacking the Republic for its…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“Most young American Jews in the 1960s also knew very little about the Holocaust. Brooks Susman, who would later become a rabbi, told an…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“This citizenship was quite literal and conveyed enormous privileges. The universities of Germany were, and I use the past tense with sorrow, powerful institutions…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to…

— Markus Zusak

Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as…

— Eric Foner

“It may be easy with the retrospect of history to see how bad the Nazis were. But to grow up in the midst of…

— Rudi Wobbe