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Jan. 13, 2021
“The near future had made up its mind to mince me into sausage-meat … I was sitting in a great waiting-room and its name was Europe. The train was due to leave in a week. I knew that. But no one could tell me where I was going or what would become of me. And now we are again seated in the waiting-room, and against is name is Europe! And again we do not know what will happen.” (From “Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist,” by Erich Käster, translation: Cyrus Brooks).
On the night of May 10, 1933, the children’s author Erich Käster left his Berlin home and watched as his books were burned by the Nazis.