Nazi Book Burning Of 1933 Essay

Nazi Book Burning of 1933 "Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too" (HIstory Place). This quote, shared by Heinrich Heine, encapsulates the feeling by many who... Censorship is the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts. Books, movies, songs, videos, and many more have been censored for many reasons. There are many books in different states that have been banned because of content, but no group of people has been so set on censoring books, that they would burn approximately 25,000 of them that they thought were against their culture. The Nazi Book Burnings of 1933, was considered one of the major censorship events because the Nazi’s burned over 25,000 books, it showed HItler’s ultimate goal to create a perfect …show more content…
The interpretation of Hitler’s ultimate goal is that he wants to create the perfect race of people that are all the same, in how they think and how they look. Jewish people were thought to be not a part of this perfect race because they often had different ideas than Hitler’s. The students of many universities gathered books that were by Jewish writers and books that they thought went against their beliefs, or the beliefs of HItler, and burned them. "These acts symbolize the moral and intellectual character of the Nazi regime... For these bonfires are not the work of schoolboys or mobs but of the present German Government ... The ominous symbolism of [this act and] these bonfires is that there is a government in Germany which means to teach its people that their salvation lies in violence." ( New York Herald Tribune columnist Walter Lippman). This quote is important because it shows another interpretation of Hitler’s ultimate goal, to save their people through violence. It also shows an interpretation of how Hitler thought. The event of the book burning began to show people Hitler’s ultimate