A demand that the works of Heinrich Heine, the German poet, be expunged from all German books of literature and anthologies and that no German publisher be permitted to reprint his works has been sounded by a Nazi writer in a recent issue of the National socialistische Monatshefte.
Citing as the underlying cause for such an action the fact that Heine was a Jew and “it is in the Jewish problem that a true danger lurks for us Germans”, Dr. Wolfgang Lutz declares:
“Those demands must be carried out, however painful they may appear. Then the people abroad, too, will have to carry out the belief of our people and regard as German only what our people consider to be German, and this will bring about the fall of Heine from pedestal as a great poet of the Western world as a figure of word and literature.”
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