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| SoccerStar |
 Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:52 am Post subject: I have a history question that has been nagging on my mind |
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I don't know much about WWII and I have had this question nagging my mind since I first watched indiana jones and the last crusade
Why where they burning all the books in Berlin and did this even happen
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| ALOTEF |
| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 2:29 am Post subject: |
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yes it did. those books were jewish books as the nazis were against the jews. They also burnt down temples and sent many jews to concentration camps, as well as other "minorities" such as disabled-people, jehovah's witnesses, criminals, and those who opposed the nazi party.
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| Daniel |
| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 2:53 am Post subject: Re: I have a history question that has been nagging on my mi |
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| SoccerStar |
| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| juniorgeneral |
| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:56 am Post subject: |
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One of our German friends can probably fill you in with more accuracy than I can. But I think the books that were burned were not just Jewish books, but books that were considered "unGerman." Which included books with themes that didn't fit the Nazi political worldview.
Art was also a target.
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| James Byers |
| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Yes, the Nazi's organized these things early on around universities, and many of the people burning the books were students and pro-Nazi professors. The initiative was often student based and the burning reflected anything that might be "tainted" by Jews, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, labor unions, homosexuals, and other Un-German elements.
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| Dharper |
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That bit annoyed me
They really didn't need to play the Koeniggraetzer March during that scene
It's one of the classic Prussian marches and isn't at all associated with the Nazis
But whatever, it's a movie
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| Plato(o)n |
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Nazis were proud of "old german military traditions" so they played those songs.
there is a nice quote of a writer who watched the burning of those books:
"i cant eat that much i wanna barf"
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| irishhighlander |
| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:10 am Post subject: Um question |
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are you a young person and haven`t studied history that much?
Here in Japan i got a kick out of reading in the Japanese media (English translations) that Japanese kids don`t know who the Nazi`s or Soviet Union. Translaters who have to put in subtitles were baffled that both these terms weren`t known.
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| SoccerStar |
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I am 13 but I know differn't historical times other then WWII, such as the cival war and the early days of the Catholic church and differn't things about when Catholics came to the amarcia's so I just haven't gotten up to the more recent wars yet... but I know some of the older things.
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