Nazi Book Burning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHzM1gXaiVo  :I watched a documentary on youtube 'Nazi Book Burning' which was published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

 "Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned" -Heinrich Heine, 1821, German poet

-Books represent humanity at its best and its worst. To burn books is simply a fundamental repression of ideas.

I've been taught in many different history lessons by passionate teachers, both from english and polish school that the main aim and reason to why knowledge was abolished for people other than Germans was it was a threat to their system. Educated people and those with professions such as doctors, lawyers, businessmen, politicians were murdered for being a possibility to build defence against the Nazis and form any sort of way that would clash with Hitler's ideologies. We know knowledge is a power and those with the most have a chance of change for the better. Hitler would prioritise his own aryan race, mind wash them into thinking and believing anything he wanted. The opposite of this of course was to annihilate businesses and educated forces from the enemy, a majority of people and minorities. There was a focus of targeting the Jewish and others such as the black, disabled, homosexual etc.. A major strike that took place on behalf of the Nazis was on 1st April 1933 where one of the first boycotts took place on Jewish Businesses. Books that were considered dangerous by the Nazis were burnt. For example:

This book written by the German author Erich Maria Remarque was burnt as it was deemed dangerous to the German Party.

80/90 thousand volumes were burnt. For week afterwards books were confiscated from libraries, bookshops and from private collections.

 “Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.” - Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf

The Nazi Book Burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, pacifist, classical liberal, anarchist, socialist, and communist authors, among others.