The great German poet Heinrich Heine (d. 1856) studied at the University here in Göttingen, and his books were among those banned and burned in Berlin and throughout the Reich. Prophetically, he had said, “Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned too.”
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I don’t know whether any of you saw this two months ago, or, if you did, whether you remember it. But it’s an instructive incident:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416250/cut-his-mic-kathryn-jean-lopez
By itself, it signifies little or nothing. But it’s scarcely alone.
Posted from Göttingen, Germany
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