How the Nazis first burned books and then people
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- Book burnings - in the past and the present - stand as one of the most powerful symbols of intolerance and censorship. On May 10, 1933, only a few months after Hitler's rise to power, tens of thousands of books were burned in more than twenty German cities. Most books were works by Jewish authors. But works by political dissidents were also blacklisted. Numerous writers were forced to go into exile, while many of those who stayed in Germany were imprisoned or murdered. The Nazis replaced the Weimar Republic’s once vibrant culture with Nazi propaganda and a carefully tailored concept of what they wanted “German culture” to be.
In this episode of "Arts Unveiled", DW History Reporter Susanne Spröer sets forth to investigate why the idea to burn books took hold of universities across Germany in 1933. What role did the symbolism of fire play? Which authors were blacklisted? What happened to them afterwards? And what do young people today think about these acts of cultural destruction?
00:00 Introduction
03:17 Whose books did the Nazis burn? And why?
10:51 Who came up with the book burnings?
17:38 What books and what art were allowed?
20:10 Are book burnings a dark chapter of the past?
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they tell you they were burning books but never what books they were burning
Thank you for your interest. Besides the novels of well-known authors such as Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, and Arthur Schnitzler, philosophical and scientific works by individuals like Sigmund Freud were also burned. The following list provides an overview, although it does not claim to be exhaustive: www.nsdoku.de/en/the-blacklist/book-titles
@@DWHistoryandCulture most of these are sexual in nature sigmund freud for all his advancements in psychology he was a sexual degenerate
Book burning is book burning
@@JhonNye96 Why were 30k books banned in post-war Germany then, pray tell.
Idk know what books were burned, but again booking burning is book burning
What were the books? Video leaves out an awful lot of specifics on the wide range of books burned.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
What were in those books?
They were published “ works” that were communist,homosexual and of a pornographic nature and by no means were “ works of literature “ a neighbor who lived a few doors down was present at a book burning in Munich and went into further details as to why Americans were not told the actual truth,I leave it up to you to figure out who “ they” were that manipulated the american citizens……
They were novels, poetry, and scientific books.
Really? Weren’t they from the Institute of Sexual Science? Run by Magnus Hirschfeld?
Please don’t be disingenuous. If you had the courage of your convictions you’d tell the whole truth.
The same books that lgbt groups read to kids at 'drag queen story hour'
@@janreznak881Is there a problem is there are books about secual research tho? Ya'll speak like if anything about homosexuality or trans people is the devils spawn
Why on earth would anyone want to burn the entire library of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, and why does that incident always get downplayed when denouncing the Nazi book burnings? Surely the lost volumes there were among the proudest achievements of the unique Weimar cultural moment, with a high degree of relevence to the contemporary 21st century cultural hegemon.
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@@DWHistoryandCulture Thanks for clarifying this, now I know they were right in turning every volume into ash
For every action there’s an opposing reaction. Ask yourself why, that’s the first step.
I wonder what books they burned..
Thank you for your interest. Besides the novels of well-known authors such as Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, and Arthur Schnitzler, philosophical and scientific works by individuals like Sigmund Freud were also burned. The following list provides an overview, although it does not claim to be exhaustive: www.nsdoku.de/en/the-blacklist/book-titles
@@DWHistoryandCulture Why do you not mention the books of Magnus Hirshfield?
Bull@@DWHistoryandCulture
Should books promoting pedophilia be accessible to children?
Which books are you refering to?
Oy vey
@@DWHistoryandCultureWow!
@@DWHistoryandCulture These statements that you hear from some Americans are like those bogus claims made that our 2020 presidential election was "stolen" from Trump even though Trump lost by at least seven million votes. This talk of pedophilia and pornography being peddled to children are most fabricated stories. And keep in mind that some of the literary works which our conservative elements deem "prurient" or "obscene" include the works of Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, probably a host of European writers too. Notice that when you ask which books one poster is referring to that you cannot get a straight answer.
Posts a comment with no basis, leaves, refuses to elaborate and doesn't give the smallest proof, will probably respond with "search it yourself" and when you don't find proves he will most likely call you "westerner sheep" or a communist
The Allies burned more books in Germany than the Nazis did.
Exactly whole countries were de-germanized.
And more people.
@@novalier East prussia was de-germanized.
Excellent work. Banning erased so many disadvantaged groups and challengers of Nazi's very narrow thought. Magnus Hirschfeld was another major figure-so much research on the homosexual community and transgender folk (including surgeries) was lost.
He was a subversive freak, and the originator of the ideology that preys on vulnerable children with impunity today.
I agree. And as one of the contemporary Germans interviewed here notes, the Nazis BANNED books before burning them. Books are already being banned here in the USA by legislative decree in some states.
Good.
@@SagesseNoir What was in those books? Ever actually ask and look into this most basic question?
@@SeanThomasCross They literally mentioned what was in those books
This is a great video! I appreciate the fact DW has gone to the trouble of asking difficult questions and selecting informed people to answer them. I visited Babelplatz many years ago one cold December evening and was mesmerized by the display of empty bookshelves, so the topic was not completely new to me, yet I learned plenty about how this one event fit into a larger picture what what that means for us in this day and age.
Thanks so much for sharing your opinion here, we appreciate your feedback a lot. All the best from Berlin.
This his historical incorrect. The Reich burned degenerate books and pornographic material. Why is the West in decline today. The people that destroyed Germany are the same ones destroying the West. Wake up
The issue is not the book burning. They burned books marked as deviant. The issue was how it got out of hand
They burned books, period ! Who decided which books were deviant!
@@dancingnature they burned specific books. That was good. Why? Just like now, many books were corrupt. The issue was never that, the problem was tyranny
Thank you for publishing this video. I hope the world including the US learns from these lessons
Show this to Florida
Christian nationalists are more nazi than christians.
With all this crazy televangelists who preach hate, I see no hope.
We won't. I wish that would happen but people here are determined to put us into the same situation. De Santis would- well got knows what he would do to the people, genocide likely, if given a chance.
@@___beyondhorizon4664 100%
@@mariahsmom9457 pahaha lol what a joke
I am from Sri Lanka. One of our invaders burnt books made of Ola leafs in late 1700 hundred and early 1800 hundreds. Most of them were irreplaceable. Then in the late 1900 hundreds a group for political gain burned the Jaffna library. People don't seem to bother or learn from our past mistakes. Sad.
DW thank you so much for doing this, not only to show how horrible it was then but also to show those here in the states and around the world why so many of us compare what is going on now to what happened then. What is happening now scares me. As a kid I was honored to know some that managed to live through hitlers camps and learn from them. We cannot let this ever happen again.
Gaza.
This video was so moving to me. My Father was born in Munich Germany in the 1940's. I heard from my Grandmother about the book burning,and also what happened to the people who wrote them. I never believed I would see books be banned in my own country (USA). Yet, here we are.
As a writer, a queer person, and a member of a minority faith, it's frightening to think some institute might someday have a display telling my sad fate. I won't be a slave or bend my knee to a racist homophobic government. Ideas live in eternal burnings of peoples hearts. You can't kill that, as Helen Keller pointed out.
You've mixed several topics.
Please, of you want to share your thoughts, concentrate on one at a time.
@LMB222 Sorry, that's censorship.
You don't stand alone.
Do you believe they should have pornography books now in school libraries?
@@LMB222 Why? It was perfectly clear to me. Are you having trouble keeping up?
Something like that is happening in Russia now. Books are not burned yet, but artists are being fired from their jobs, and many are being sentenced to prison.
They probly promote some liberal ideology then
They did that lloong before now as well.
This is what’s happening in HK, when they remove books from public libraries whose authors did not fall in line, regardless if the books are political or not.
@@eeyore345 Sounds a lot like liberalism.
Scary when Russia is less fascist than we are.
Excellent video that provided historical context, along with political, cultural & social nuances. I found it riveting, but also horrifying at the same time.
Nazi is left wing, not right
Jools T - same. 😊
No mention of Magnus Hirschfield?? That seems a grotesque oversight...
Thank you for acknowledging the work of Magnus Hirschfeld. Indeed, outstanding achievements, as well as his Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin are worth mentioning.
Yes they burned his evil writings. Good on them I say.
The work of magnus hershfeld? haha!
@@DWHistoryandCultureso trying to implement the mutilation of men are outstanding achievements? I would argue bringing back a country from the ashes is way more of an outstanding achievements then transgenderism. God bless you're indoctrinated soul.
Excellent that DW made this video, thank you.
This is thought provoking. It’s cliche to say that it wouldn’t happen again, or it won’t happen here. I can’t doubt such a possibility.😢😢😢
Yeah leftists are already banning books, what's next?...
Magnus Hirschfeld and his topic…. Say it loud!
Here is a link to a documentary where we shine a light on his work: th-cam.com/video/xPPe3jrPGE8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for creating this channel DW
Rubbish incorrect, biased documentary, like so many that are made of that period.
Do you know which books were burned?
I wrote a comic book entitled 'Life, Love and AIDS' with six colleagues. The Catholic Archbishop of Nairobi, Maurice Cardinal Otunga, burned several copies of it at a public rally on August 31 1995. Now there is a movement to canonize the awful cardinal.
From July 2021 - June 2022, PEN America's Index of School Books lists 2,532 instances of individual books being banned affecting 1,648 unique book titles by 1,241 authors, 290 illustrators, and 18 translators in 32 states.
By democrats
It's growing into ridding the authors of their lives.
@Tom Henry Don't be silly. The Republicans and MAGA supporters are the ones pushing for the book banning and the alterations of our country's history. They deny our country's past of genocide of the native people, the enslavement of African Americans, the racial discrimination of people of color, the discrimination of women, and the discrimination against the LGBTQIA community.
@@tomhenry897 ? Do you mean the democrat author's books or the book-burners were democrats? Using the last anticendent, I'd guess you mean democrat authors, democrat illustrators and democrat translators are having their works banned.
And it's getting worse. Some states in the USA are passing laws which not only allow the firing of educators, but also heavy fines and even imprisonment
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings" - Heinrich Heine
Indeed.
Or tear down statues if THEY do not like them.
@@LOSTONITALL pretty big difference
@@LOSTONITALL you lost the war, get over it
@@LOSTONITALL not the same. Tearing down statues that honor slave owners and traitors isn't the same thing as erasing them by burning History books.
I, as a black American should not have to walk past a statue of a slave owner on my way into city hall or any other government building.
It's a horrible, stomach-churning feeling.
The Maya culture, over two millennia old, with the most elaborate writing system of Mesoamerica, was one of the most impressive civilisations of the New World. Franciscan friars were missioned to convert Yucatan. In 1562, one of them, Diego de Landa, announced the beginning of an inquisition, the first of its kind in the New World.
De Landa was brutal in his methods. He tortured countless Mayan people; hanging them from their necks as a form of interrogation, and in the midst of it all he built a great bonfire in the center of one of the last Mayan cities. He gathered together all of the ancient books he could find, centuries of accumulated knowledge, writings on the history of the Mayan people, their study of mathematics, astronomy, poetry, and literature, and de Landa threw these into the fire and watched as they burned. He later wrote about this event in his memoirs.
“We found a great number of books containing these letters and as they contained but superstition and the lies of the devil, we burned them all which dismayed and distressed these people greatly.”
Only three Maya books are known to have survived this act.
They had no books. They had no written language.
Calm down. They hadn't even invented the wheel
"They that start by burning books end by burning men" - Heinrich Heine
Amazon does not burn books they simply won't let you advertise certain books they ban.
Plz make videos on how Christians burnt books and then witches. The destruction of Native Pagan European libraries, culture, religion, places of worship, persecution by Christian Europeans is unparalleled in human history.
Religious Asianization of Europe by Europeans is a fascinating part of human history.
Thank you for this idea, we will think about it
Germany you are a great country because you care about your history, you studied it, you learned from it, and you moved forward to make your nation prosperous.
I will be happy when and if MY country (the USA) does the same. Now in much of the country books are being banned to conceal the dark side of our history
I mean... there is a lot more to German history.
@@punishanpika Here in the USA conservatives like to say that there's a lot more to American history than slavery, genocide of indigenous Americans, child labor, the brutal exploitation of immigrants, etc. But usually when they say such things it is because they want to paper over or simply deny the whole dark side of American history. But you cannot understood contemporary America without that history. Do you know that in some American schools in states where the right wing has political control students and teachers are not even allowed to talk about our Civil Rights Movement? All this is the so called "world's greatest democracy."
Not too prosperous these days,germany is starting to look more like a third world hellhole,actual fact vs opion as what is occurring in other Western European countries as well,I’m Irish and we can tell you about actual diversity and the distructive nature it has caused to our culture ,willing to bet you never heard about what occurred in Limerick in 1905 …..
It should be illegal to burn any book, even Hitlers! All books have value! ❤
What about books that promote or defend Nazism?
This was so intriguing!! ❤ Thank you DW for your brilliant journalism
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Crazy to think how severely society changed over such a short timespan. It all went to hell in a little over a decade
It’s happening in Florida right now, as every right wings are competing to out trump, trump.
@@dramese so true and so disturbing.
It was Germany’s attempt to make Germany great again.
@@dramese no its not stop being misinformed
The Weimar Republic fell into debortory. The lesson for today with that period is to not push people to extremes
the books were degenerate anyway no one misses them anyway
Thank you for your comment. While we encourage lively discussions, we remind all users to remain respectful. Just because you may not agree with the content of a book, does not mean that it is "degenerate". If you further engage in downplaying Nazi crimes, we will have to block you from our channel.
true
Thank you for your comment. The definition of degeneration is the decay of values/tradition, and literature that was being burned by Nazis included content on transgenderism, sexual education/reform, homosexuality. This is in sharp contrast to the fundamental values of tradition present in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. I advice you to do more research before posing as an arbiter in your comment section. @@DWHistoryandCulture
@@DWHistoryandCulture Blocking is like burning books.
@@DWHistoryandCulturethank you for being relentless shills for the global elite. The people will never forget your crimes.
this is going on right here in America , the far right took great pride of doing that .
In regard to the video "Are book burnings a dark chapter of the past?" I'm from the United States. Florida's ban on books is scary for me.
Florodas ban on what books
book is just one of the available media right now, you must pay real attention to the mass media, digital media and social media
@Mikey Painado Holocaust books are on floridas “woke” book bans list.
Why do you only care about banning pornographic comic books?
In California To Kill a Mockingbird and Huck Finn are being banned. Why do you only care about drawings of children fellating adults?
They're banning books in Manitoba aswell. It's all unsettling to say the least.
This was good, thank you for publishing it - please keep up with content like this! We need to always remember, and never repeat! We also need to know WHAT and HOW to keep atrocities like this from happening again/at all, all over the world. What can common people do? Visual examples of small everyday actions that everyone can take, etc. Thanks!
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Ironically we are censored on this very comment tree. We can do nothing. Or 1 billion ppl co-ordinate to not using youtube at all and see how that works. Doing nothing and the second thing are the same thing.
The first sovereign emperor of China name Chin Shi Huang Di he actually played the same role in a way. He actually had certain books to be burned only special books were actually to be spared. Those books were actually flat bamboo sticks one on top of another piece. Then he actually had 740 scholars to be buried alive probably in 215 BC.
It reflects the authoritarian mindset
This seems so on point especially after the bjp govt in india decision of removing famous muslim rulers like mughals from school history textbooks.
They should watch this documentary and get some sanity. ❤
True
The Germans are to be commended for working on reconciling their past. I wish we on the USA could do the same.
They were forced to. It wasn’t willingly
@@EternalReich88 It is so blatantly obvious that you have never been in Germany.
@@kosmokritikos9299 same thing with this video. Censored comments. Like I said. It’s all by force. Not willfully
@@kosmokritikos9299 your comment proves my point. When I visit Germany I want to experience their beautiful culture and greatness and enjoy it. But when I get there I get to learn about their “dark history” instead? That’s absurd. What does that tell you? Who is in charge of the country, Proud German patriots or a subversive international clique?
Are you kidding? Have you been to Germany recently? Nazism is alive and kicking in Germany
From the U.S, also thank you so very much for this video
Yes! Nobody has ever talked about it here.
They always say, "Oh well.... They're just jerks. Don't worry about it."
Shows how democrats are acting
AS an intellectual who is also Afro-American, this video and its topic stands as a stern WARNING of what can happen here in the good ole USA if similar tendencies in our country is allowed to go unchecked. The thought of having some of my own writings banned or burned is frightening even to think about. And in Republican controlled states these bans are already in progress
@@mr.horrorchild4094 As an educator I certainly do encourage reading, and also I do warn people about censorship, the bans on books happening here in the USA...The banning of books from schools and libraries (which are intended to keep whites as well as blacks in a state of ignorance) is a fascistic tendency endangering the rights and freedoms of EVERYONE...even people like you. Perhaps, you should also study more to ENLIGHTEN yourself. Also, Blacks in America are more often robbed than the perpetrators of robbery. And one reason why I DO encourage Blacks to read, and why right wing censors ban books to prevent such reading, is that reading can better enable Blacks to understand how the systemic robbery happens, and thereby become better able to defend themselves. As Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, Malcolm X and others have discovered, reading can be LIBERATING. That is why Nazi tyrants censored what people could read. The fear of such liberation was why slaveholders once forbade teaching a black child to read. And it is why current far right loons are passing laws to censor books in schools, universities and even libraries. If they have their way America would become a fascist state. We cannot permit that to happen
And the more time passes, the worse it will be
I don't think this is going to end very well
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Lol you r not an intellectual bro
@@glenlivet9394 I won't engage in a childish trading of insults with you. Why don't you spend your energies in learning from this insightful video.
Wow - such a wealth of great historical material - thanks for such an informative piece 🙏
Thanks for watching 😉
And now,in the States, they are Banning books 😢
That’s the democrats for you
@@tomhenry897 nice gaslighting there, republicon.
And censoring classic movies like The French Connection. The woke brown shirts
They are banning sexualized books that innocent kids should not be reading. Demonic drag people reading to kids? If you support that you are just as bad as the nazis
@@tomhenry897Desantis is a Democrat?
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
George Sanytayana
Yes, we need to learn how the war mongers took the world to war twice, and are now planning a 3rd time.
Exceptional video. Fascinating and moving. Thank you
J.K. Rowling is very familiar with the woke left-wing book burning crowd.
Wow that is not even on the same level
an Organzied poltical party burning books that disagree with their Views is diffrent then burning the books of an author who made transphobic statements
In line with my previous paragraph on the subject, when it came to his anti Jewish policies Hitler would rarely give a direct order. Instead, he would give suggestions, in order to preserve plausible deniability, which were termed Fuhrer's wishes. As a consequence of these wishes, Hitler's followers would stumble over each other to gain his favour. In the jungle of the Nazi hierarchy, evil was incentivized. Gaining the Fuhrer's ear was key to career advancement. In the case of the Holocaust, it was this type of competition that made it particularly sinister.
That sounds a little like Donald Trump.
That sounds a lot like Dolt45. But he eventually betrays his supporters and causes them harm
You’re lying and you know it.
Sounds more like what the communists implemented in Eastern Europe after the Second World War…….
Note:
Not only were six million who perished in this war, but millions more of different creeds and races.
May they rest in peace.
The late Ray Bradbury also took inspiration from the Library of Alexandria for his book, Fahrenheit 451
Wonderful video that shares these terrible moments. Seems eerily similar today. Look at mom's for liberty, disturbing! Much appreciated!
Thanks alot for the feedback!
"You can't kill a thought. You can't kill an idea. Can't kill the word But you can kill people who carry these thoughts, ideas and words. What our enemies are doing. Obviously, the game is worth the candle for them". Irina Alksnis,
What IS happening in the USA IS as worrying as Germany 1933
By democrats
@@tomhenry897 democrats aren't the ones literally making certain books illegal
Weimar Republic was such a bright spot in Germany's history, no wonder they want to reenact it and they're almost there.
Hate kills, LOVE HEALS - spread love❤❤❤
Thank you for this video. One comment: @20:50 Not only are the library “cleansings” in Florida sanctioned by the State, they have actually been initiated and encouraged by the governor and are now official state policy.
Yes you are right and this could quickly spread to other States.
What are the library cleansings?
Yet ok for democrats to ban books
And he is going to run for President of the US, terrifying.
@@metalmusic4958 basicly, they passed a law that says public & school library books must pass a very vaguely defined ‘moral’ standards, and if anyone complains the books must be examined.
Then, people complain about books that for example discuss violence against gay people, and the book gets banned for containing pornography and grooming children. Because obviously a 12 or 16 year old kid will read about gay people and suddenly uncontrollable urges to have sex with 80 year olds of their own gender.
They cloak it in nice terms, like protecting children from pornography, violence, emotionally distressing subjects, pedosexuality, etc.
But other books that get banned included stuff like 1984, by Orwell.
Funnily enough, most of the supporters are extremely Christian, and in at least 1 case a protestor used the same laws to get the Bible removed from library’s. Because that book also contains references to sex and violence and genocide. But for some reason, the big supporters of this push were not okay with the Bible being removed
The burning and destroying of books also happened under Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain in 1490 -1492 as part of the Spanish Inquisition. This included the Talmud and Muslim books. Looking at Wikipedia there is a long history scroll and book burning. Books are now being banned in US schools. Thanks for this video, We must always be on our guard.
Thank you, we appreciate your thoughts on this topic. Sending you all the best
There are many good and valid reasons why a small, conscientiously reviewed and selected number of books have been withdrawn from public libraries and classrooms where young children are present. Any citing beyond that is wholly misinformation being propagated.
Thank you DW, another great doc that shows human can reflect and learn and admit to its mistakes.
I hope one day we will see other autocratic countries like China and Russia can be free and look back at the dark history right now.
Don't forget USA
Many thanks! I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary .
This is where America is heading.
Makes you think who was running the banking industry during that time 🤔
With democrats in control
A very dark chapter of German history... As they say, eternal vigilance is the price paid for liberty. The earlier people speak out the better, before it is too late.
It’s happening now. The censorship.
Sounds like Nathan needs to watch Europa The Last Battle
Am curious on how you believe parents should react now to the porn books pushed in the schools history repeats
@@calisingh7978 please remove yourself if you only spread idiocy and lies.
If Germany didn't fall to the National Socialists, it would have fallen to Communism - Stalin killed many more people than died in WW2.
this is going today. witness Florida and the LGBTQ_+ hatred being promoted.
Witness being shoved down our throats while real history is being destroyed by the democrats
Thank you for this illuminating look at history.
What knowledge was written in those books?
Thank you for your interest. Besides the novels of well-known authors such as Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, and Arthur Schnitzler, philosophical and scientific works by individuals like Sigmund Freud were also burned. The following list provides an overview, although it does not claim to be exhaustive: www.nsdoku.de/en/the-blacklist/book-titles
The fact that the book burning was a product of the Nazi student union illustrates the terrible dynamics of Nazism. Unlike the Soviet Union were everything was top down, in Nazi Germany there was scope for individual initiative which would have been unthinkable under Stalin. One of the most awful examples of this phenomena can be seen in the adoption of Zyklon B as one of the main killing agents in genocide of Europe's Jews. Far from being directed from on high, the decision to employ Zyklon B as a killing agent was the product of the initiative of one man. That particular individual, SS Captain Karl Fritsch, carried out gassing experiments using Russian prisoners of war at Auschwitz's notorious Block 11 in the early autumn of 1941. His motive in carrying out these horrific experiments was to curry favour with his superiors, which would go a long way to advance his career if successful. In essence, this top down and bottom up decision making process enabled tens of thousands of functionaries to work towards their leader. During the time of the Third Reich, individuals and institutions would often compete with each other to see who could come up with the most radical racial policies. As far as Hitler was concerned, especially after war began, the more radical the policy was the better it was in his eyes.
@Nigel Lawson
Lenin said: "most popular bolshevik's ideas was among students "... That's why most radical ideas pushed on young people - schools , colleges, universities. BTW, " progressive liberalism " term was created to cover up TRUE ideas behind it - communism.
@@iwanterniwsky9441 What you said about Communist students is true. But once the Soviet state became an established fact, Lenin and his those who followed in his footsteps squashed all forms of dissent within the Party in the name of promoting Party orthodoxy. Lenin was suspicious of anything that challenged his worldview. He looked upon any ideas that conflicted with his own as a personal attack on his character and his leadership. In this respect, his character bears a strong resemblance to Marx. In the case of both men, those who questioned their views were looked upon as enemies, rather than debaters. Taking these facts in mind, it is no wonder that the regime established by Lenin became increasingly rigid in its interpretation of Part doctrine. Until it reached the point under Stalin where any deviation from the Party line would be punished by expulsion and death. That is why there was no scope for initiative in the Soviet Union. To challenge the supremacy of the Party, even on the most minor points, was to commit an irredeemable sin.
It’s daring that they flash a quick shot of Harry Potter books being burned
It's historic fact the Nazis hated Harry Potter.
What books did they burn?
Evil degeneracy. Well done I say.
Einstein, tolstoy, joyce, dostoyevsky, fitzgerald, sinclaire, hemmingway
DW is also a great source of global news.
A bit too soft on the "good guys"
Can't imagine burning books.
This is great. Thank you.
The Right in the US is running full steam down this path and I'm scared for our future. My country has done some horrible things in our past but until the last few years I had hoped we would eventually live up to the lofty ideals we have espoused.
No it’s democrats that ban books
It's easy excuse a liars
@@tomhenry897 DeSantis
@@wafflestomper3982 a main one was the Life of Rosa Parks, but pretty much any book that has any lgbtqai characters in them and a lot that have black people in them. Not every state is as bad but every state(even in my blue state there are increased challenges) but especially Florida has made laws to give anyone the power to complain and remove any bok off the library shelf. Some states have made laws that make have "inappropriate"(meaning anything with a gay person) in a book a kid can read illegal. It's ridiculous thy have made the book Tango Makes Three about two male penguins adopting a baby penguin basically illegal
Sounds awfully like today's America
Other countries burned books all the time. History repeats.
Great video I wish the Republicans in the US would see how damaging banning books is.
They see it. But they're not really concerned with it.
I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to do the same thing here in the United States.
@@eksbocks9438 sad but true. But I was fortunate to as a kid learn from those that survived by a miracle hitlers camps. Also I was pretty much raised by my grandma who was born in 1920 and I was close to my great great aunt who was born in 1900. I learned a lot from all of them that's why I fight against all the BS republican stupidity. That's why I will share this because people need to understand what we are talking about when we compare the maga republicins to hitlers Germany.
@@eksbocks9438 they have been implicitly trying to implement it here since FDR.
They know how damaging it is. That is their goal. They want autocratic rule and knowledge works against that goal.
@@Jan96106 Exactly. It's what they want. They don't want free thinkers. They don't want to be questioned. They want everyone to think and act like them.
If moms for liberty had their way libraries would be governed only by them. Deciding what other people's kids read, while declaring parents rights and religion
You can't find the river in book stores in Canada.
DeSantis being a natzi doctor descendant makes this even more creepy
I love your videos and I love your channel. I learn a lot of your documentaries. Keep up the good work. This was a very informative video
Thank you very much!
I had no idea that there were book burnings in the US, and Harry Potter and Twilight of all things 😂
There are book bans in lots of states, most notably Florida where the Nazi wannabe Desantis is governor.
It was news to me as well. I always remember the destruction of the Beatles records after John Lennon's remarks regarding Jesus. It was not on the same level as the book burnings in Germany. But the sentiment was the same. The destruction of someone's work because you didn't agree with their ideas or speech.
@@barbaras2669 wow I didn't know about that either
By democrats
Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it!
What type of books were the Nazis burning tho?
Pornography?
Books on child sexuality?
Child pornography?
Transsexual books?
What else?
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Very impressed by the way Germans are presenting this programme IN ENGLISH. I'm not holding my breath for a programme presented by Brits speaking German about how Brexit enabled Fascism in the U.K.
Most ignorant comment here, wokel.
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana (1863)
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We must make sure this behavior is never allowed to fester.
While it’s obviously not the same as happened under the nazis, I do want to point out that book bannings in Florida are indeed done by the leadership.
Thank you . Danke
I see this happening and being repeated especially in America.
By democrats
@@tomhenry897 funny because Republicans always talk about how they want a civil war and have guns and republican states are banning and burning books
@@tomhenry897 They're not the ones in America banning books, censoring education, etc.
Sad. Same thing De Santis is doing today in Florida.
Amazon - 2017 book burning on a massive scale. Over 500 titles were abolished and millions of books pulped
One such title was the Bad War
Nowadays, you can find banned books online or in the bookstore.
Now, people voluntarily ignore books, rendering book-burning obsolete.
I used to work with a woman who said she got rid of all of her books because they were just another thing to dust.
@marketads1 So what. They were hers to do with as she chose. Hopefully she donated them so others could enjoy them.
Its happening in America right now !!!
We can learn that fear is never the way to go instead we should always strive to replace it with Knowledge and unbiased understanding but more importantly humanity that is the way to go
There is a group in the usa that has eyes on doing the same thing. GOP.
No it’s the democrats that ban books
hahahaha... the book-burners of today are making a documentary about book-burning! Just my kind of humour!
What books were they?
A whole variety of them, including poetry, novels, and scientific books.
@@DWHistoryandCulture for no reason other than they were Jewish or they were just books that went against their ideology?
DW doesn't want to tell you, but it was mostly degenerate crap. Anything that was designed to demoralize the citizens of Germany. That included erotic/porn and 'pedo' and other (largely institution funded) degenerate pseudoscience.
@@DWHistoryandCulture Why don't you mention that most of it was about socialism, Marxism and sexuality?
@@Urmph843 and? Those are all things which should be discussed
We should show this video all over America.
Excellent! I learn so much from your channel. Book banning here in Florida/USA is only the beginning. 😔
They haven't even stopped at book burning -- they're kindnapping trans children and stopping immigrants at traffic stops. They've made it illegal for certain people to exist in public -- I'd say they're already deep into genocide, not just starting it.
In ancient times, books burning happened in Alexandria Egypt during the period of Alexandria the Great, the library contained books from different countries, it was burned. Today, a new huge library us replacing it. I wash i have time to visit it during my 3 days in Alexandria in September 2021.
In ancient China, the emperor also burned books to silence the interlectur
Intellectuals?
The comments are HILLARIOUS, both left wing and right wing people are accusing the other side of burning books. Damn bro