On the 10th of May 1933, students with the support of the Nazi Party and Nazi officials , carried out the burning of thousands of books.
Bertolt Brecht (translated by John Willett) - The Burning of the Books
When the Regime commanded that books with harmful
knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't
my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!
From:- Poems 1913 -1956 by Bertolt Brecht, Methuen, London.
knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't
my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!
From:- Poems 1913 -1956 by Bertolt Brecht, Methuen, London.
Crisp translation, thank you! In the first line there is a typo "commaded" > commanded.
ReplyDeleteThank you kindly for your diligence, corrected.
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