Content note: Night photograph of the 10 May 1933 public book burning in Berlin, with a crowd and uniformed men giving the Nazi salute. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Berlin, Opernplatz: Bücherverbrennung durch Studenten
At night on Berlin's Opernplatz a pile of burning books and paper lies in the foreground while a crowd of students and uniformed men stands behind it, many with right arms raised in the Nazi salute. The press caption labels the burned works 'undeutsche Schriften'.
- Date
- May 10, 1933
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Deutsche Studentenschaft with the Reich Ministry of Propaganda (Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist)
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- 1933 Book Burnings
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-14597), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (German Federal Archives), as stated on the Commons file page
Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-14597 / Georg Pahl / CC-BY-SA 3.0
Text on the object
[no printed text on the object]
The archive caption quoted in the notes is catalogue text, not text on the print.
