“I throw this book into the fire”: When hundreds of books burned in Salzburg and Thalgau
On the trail of Salzburg’s dark history: in 1938 a total of more than 2000 books were destroyed on the Residenzplatz in the state capital and on the Schörghubbühel in Thalgau.
“Wherever books are burned, people end up being burned,” wrote Heinrich Heine as early as 1821. After the Nazi Germany in 1938, the two large-scale public book burnings of today’s Austria took place in the state of Salzburg: On April 30th on the Residenzplatz in the state capital and at the winter solstice on December 21st on the Schörghubbühel in Thalgau (Flachgau). Germanist Karl Müller and local chronicler Bernhard Iglhauser talk about the fanals during the Nazi regime.
Shadow places: The podcast about the dark history of Salzburg
In the podcast “Schattenorte”, the SN editors Anna Boschner and Simona Pinwinkler shed light on the dark history of the city and state of Salzburg.
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Literature for this episode:
Karl Müller, “Away with the foreign, intellectual property”! “On some aspects of cultural destruction – attempt an introduction. In: Heimo Halbrainer, Gerald Lamprecht, Michaela Wolf (ed.):” Where you burn books, you burn at the end People. “Book burnings in the past, present and in memory, Graz 2020, pp. 45-64.
Bernhard Iglhauser: “Hut from these confessors” – Thalgau 1914-1945. Self-published, Thalgau 2008.