Nazi book burning collection, 1941-1944.

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Nazi book burning collection, 1941-1944.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71208662

Includes correspondence, script of radio broadcast by Stephen Vincent Benet entitled "They burned the books" (May 1942), and other materials relating to Nazi book burning.

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Holocaust Center of Northern California, Holocaust Library and Research Center

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Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943

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Stephen Vincent Beńet was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family. His father had a wide appreciation for literature, and Beńet's siblings, William Rose and Laura, also becmae writers. Beńet attended Yale University where he published two collections of poetry, Five Men and Pompey (1915), The Drug-Shop (1917). His studies were interrupted by a year of civilian military service; he worked as a cipher-clerk in the same department as James Thurber. He graduated fro...