Helen Keller, ca. 1910. [LCID: 69030]
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Helen Keller

Portrait of Helen Keller, ca. 1910.

In 1933, Nazi students at more than 30 German universities pillaged libraries in search of books they considered to be "un-German." Among the literary and political writings they threw into the flames were the works of Helen Keller.

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