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History of Book Burning
When did people start burning books?
• China, • 3rd century BCE
What motivates book burning?
• It may be for moral,
political or religious
Objections to the ideas
contained in a book.
Today book burning is usually ceremonial.
• Book burners aren’t trying to destroy every copy of a book (as in Fahrenheit 451). Rather, they are expressing their objections to the material in a ritualized manner.
What kinds of books do people tend to
burn?
Specific History: Nazi Book Burning
“The Burning of the Books”
• May 10, 1933 in Berlin• Nazi youth groups burned
almost 20,000 books.• The books were from an early
sexology research centre and books from Humbolt University.
• The goal was to rid Germany of any books that contained “unGerman” ideas