Why The Nazis Burned Books

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Literature can be a powerful tool, the Nazis were able to see this, thousands of books were burned during the Nazi regime for many reasons, but this didn’t stop people from finding ways to preserve literature. The Nazis burned books as an act to control people, hatred of the Jews, and fear of different ideology. Around the world people were shocked and took action against this act of war on literature. American publishing houses started to produce books for the soldiers fighting in the war against the Nazis. Two libraries were also built, they were different but with a similar goal, in order to fight against the war the Nazis had started against literature. The Nazis succeeded in burning thousands of books in an attempt to control people but they were unable to stop people from finding ways to continue fighting for their own ideas through literature.
Nazis burned books for many reasons, from fear to complete disgust over other races and religions, believing they were the better human beings. In the video by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Peter Black explains what the Nazis goal was, “The Nazis intended to rearm Germany and to reorganize the German state on the principal that the German ethic group, or race, was superior to all others in Europe.” (Nazi Book Burning) …show more content…

Soldiers were able to use the power of literature to transform their mindsets in the battlefield and after. The libraries created had the power to bring together masses of communities and nations in the fight for the freedom of ideas and literature. Literature is a powerful tool, it can be used to destroy nations or bring nations together. In the Nazis attempt to use literature as a weapon, against first the Jews and then other nations, they brought communities and nations

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