Ernest Hemingway aboard the boat Pilar, ca. 1950. [LCID: lc304]
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Ernest Hemingway

Author Ernest Hemingway aboard the boat Pilar, ca. 1950.

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 Ernest Hemingway. 

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