Ernest Hemingway on safari, ca. 1933. [LCID: lc303]
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Hemingway on a safari

American novelist Ernest Hemingway on safari, ca. 1933.

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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