Book Burning

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My first thought is that they had to burn books to believe then it would be a perfect community. Like everything that wasn't German was wrong. Also the fact that This Heinrich Heine determined the outcome of the burning of people by saying “they will end in burning human beings.” The Germans thought that they could have a Utopia by burning the books of the Jews, Communists, socialists, and other Degenerates. They thought these books made Germany look like a bad country from like safety standards and welfare problems.

My second thought is they though burning a book because it's a threat. How is somebody's skills in being able to write something a threat it's not like the book has a knife held up to your throat. The burning of the books that
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It's somebody's physical actions that should get them locked up not just what they think or have thoughts about. Burning the books is just like burning a person's mental state because it makes them feel bad for writing that book even though it was just a thought. Nowadays if we had book burning people would start riots and say “oh it's all trumps fault he's the reason these books were written”. Like for real grow up …show more content…
It starts off saying 40,000 thousand people gathered around a giant fire to throw books in it. Like aren't you guys just getting out of war and need to rebuild your economy not waste your time burning books. They said at least 25,000 books were ungerman. All the German people in this time were insane, Hitler was probably even one of the people burning the books.

My last rant about the burning of these books. This was going on for at least a month of just burning the books and it was a “Nation wide campaign”. This article explains that the burning of the books was a purge and purification of the “true German spirit”. This article also says that the books corrupted the Germans Intellectualism. I don't think any of this is right because they had to burn books that was opposing them, Germans are crazy in this

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