Yesterday across Germany May 10, 1933 was remembered.
It was on May 10, 1933 that the German Student Union ceremoniously burned books that were considered subversive or represented ideologies opposed to Nazisam.
They included books written by people of Jewish faith, communists, pacifists, liberals, in other words, anyone who opposed the Nazis.
As the books were burned, industrialists, academics, wealthy Germans watched on in support.
And those throwing the books in the fires were mainly privileged students.
Heinrich Heine warned: "those who burn books will end up burning people".
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‼️11 million Russian-language books destroyed in Ukraine
Some 11 million Russian-language books have been destroyed as part of the programme to "de-russify Ukraine's libraries", according to Yevheniya Kravchuk, deputy chair of the Verkhovna Rada's Humanitarian and Information Policy Committee.
"The de-russification of libraries continues. About 19 million copies of books in public libraries have been written off, of which about 11 million are in Russian", - the parliamentarian said.
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