What: Public Talk: Extreme Censorship: Burned, Banned, Battered Books
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
When: Friday, May 2, 2008, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the burning of Magnus Hirschfeld's Berlin Institute for Sexual Science and similar incidents of extreme censorship under the Nazi regime. The Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies hosts Dr. Heino A. P. Beckmann, Honorary Consul, Federal Republic of Germany, who examines this episode within the context of modern Germany. The Children's Literature Research Collections share stories about burned and censored children's books.

Part of First Fridays, a series of intellectually stimulating talks at Elmer L. Andersen Library.

Photo: "Nazi students, some in SA uniforms, burning books. Opernplatz, Berlin, Germany 10 May 1933." Courtesy of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA. Picture may not be used for profit but only for educational purposes.