In Another Time by Jillian Cantor

Author:Jillian Cantor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Later that night, the acrid smoke still burning his lungs, Max exhaled loudly, relieved after walking Hanna safely home to her apartment. The train back to Hauptstrasse was quiet. Books were still burning in Berlin, and the men who’d rode the train out with him were still there celebrating.

When he got back to his shop, he looked around, running his hands across the shelves. How many of these would those men consider anti-German? He had English books. Books by Jewish authors. Books by American authors. His eyes lingered on a copy of Buch der Lieder by Heinrich Heine, the same book that the man on the train had been holding.

And then he remembered a play Heine had written that his father had given him to read as a teenager. He couldn’t remember the name, or even much of what the play was about, but he remembered a line that had chilled him even then, when he’d read it. He’d underlined it and showed it to Johann:

Where they burn books, Heine had written, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.

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