the blind writer helen keller published an "open letter to german students:" 'you may burn my books and the books of the best minds in europe, but the ideas those books contain have passed through millions of channels and will go on.'" on may 10, 1934, one year after the book burnings, the germany library of burnt books founded by alfred kantorowicz was opened to assemble copies of the books that had been destroyed. because of the shift in political power and the blatant control and censorship demonstrated by the nazi party, 1933 saw a “mass exodus of german writers, artists, and intellectuals…”. some went to america, some to england, and some to france. on may 10, 1934, one year to the day after the mass book burning, those writers in exile in france came together and established the library of the burned books where all the works that had been banned, burned, censored, and destroyed were collected.