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Es sind zum größten Teil Bürgerliche, die ihre ohnehin schon vorhandenen, latent radikalen Einstellungen und ihre anti-solidarische, anti-pluralistische und anti-demokratische Haltung auf die Straße tragen. Die Bewegung ist deshalb, aber auch wegen der konkreten Äußerungen – nicht nur jene, die auf den Transparenten stehen – klar als strukturell rechtsradikal einzustufen.
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Also, his power was pivoted more on command of the ‘sown’ than on mastery of the steppe: his armies were made up not just of mounted bowmen (the classic Mongol formula), but of infantry, artillery, heavy cavalry and even an elephant corps. His system of rule was a form of absolutism, in which the loyalty of his tribal followers was balanced against the devotion of his urban and agrarian subjects.
After Tamerlane
John Darwin
A year later, on 10 May 1934, the Deutsche Freiheitsbibliothek (German Freedom Library, also known as the German Library of Burnt Books) was opened in Paris. The German Freedom Library was founded by German-Jewish writer Alfred Kantorowicz, with support from other writers and intellectuals such as André Gide, Bertrand Russell and Heinrich Mann (the brother of the German writer Thomas Mann), and rapidly collected over 20,000 volumes, not just the books which had been targeted for burning in Germany but also copies of key Nazi texts, in order to help understand the emerging regime. H. G. Wells was happy to have his name associated with the new library. The library became a focus for German émigré intellectuals and organised readings, lectures and exhibitions, much to the disgust of German newspapers.
Burning the Books
Richard Ovenden
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