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The Bruno Brief: How parts of Hitler’s reading list ended up at Brown
Jacob Smollen
Last fall, Jonathan Fine, a lecturer in German studies at Brown, took his GRMN 0300 classes to the John Hay Library on a field trip of sorts.
They gathered in a second floor reading room, and looked over a collection of books from Adolf Hitler’s personal library, along with related materials of American and German war propaganda.
Jonathan Fine
They were, I think, shocked.
Adolf hitler children
They knew what was coming, obviously …
Jacob Smollen
That, of course, was Fine. The opportunity to see the books was part of his initial pitch to prospective students during shopping period. He saw it as a unique application of the language and a way to engage with some of the course’s units on German history and the Holocaust.
Jonathan Fine
You know, I know students 20 years down the line, they may not remember how to conjugate many verbs in German, but they will remember holding Hitler’s copy of “Mein Kampf.
