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arranged a book burning with the burning of mocked books symbolizing a number of reactionary literary works, and symbols of Napoleon's foreign rule like a corporal's cane. This act was used in 1933 as a justification for the Nazi
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universities agreed to organize a "national festival" at the Wartburg. The castle was chosen as a meeting place as it had been a refuge for Luther after he had been banned and was declared
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and a final blessing, the convention resembled a Protestant church service. The men eventually gathered for a festive meal and gave several toasts to the fallen of the Liberation Wars,
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At the meeting in the Wartburg knights' hall, speeches were held about Martin Luther as a freedom fighter and the way to national unity. Followed by the Christian hymn
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organization in order to encourage German unity at the university. Many of them had participated as voluntary soldiers on the fields against Napoleon,
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Gerd Fesser: "Von der Napoleonzeit zum Bismarckreich: Streiflichter zur deutschen Geschichte im 19. Jahrhundert", Donat, 2001, p. 86
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After the end of the official festivities and referring to Martin Luther's burning of the papal bull
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occupation, many people were bitter about dreams of German national unity shattered after the 1815
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in 1521. Inasmuch as he had translated the Bible there and thus set a standard for the
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including articles on freedom of speech, press and assembly was amended by Grand Duke
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Berichtigung einer Stelle in der Bredow-Venturinischen Chronik; und die beyden darauf
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On the occasion of the three-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's nailing of his
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was held in similar manner. A second festival at the Wartburg was held during the
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on 31 October 1517 and to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the bloody
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condemning the "reactionary" forces in the newly recreated states of the
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universities had been blocked by the government of State Chancellor
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Ein Wort zur Beherzigung (gegen die Burschenschaft zu Halle)
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and the assembly a protest against reactionary politics and
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Die Bundesacte über Ob, Wann und Wie? deutscher Landstände
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Deutschlands Crisis und Rettung im April und May 1813.
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Contemporary report with a list of the burnt things
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