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May 10, 1933: The Debate Was Over

A huge Nazi book burning was held in Berlin 81 years ago on May 10, 1933, the opening act of nation wide book burnings in some 34 university cities and towns organized in Germany by the German Students Association and the Nazi Party.  Thousands of university students eagerly chucked into the bonfire some 25,000 volumes written by authors considered subversive by the new Nazi regime, which covered most of Western thought before the new era that the Nazis thought they were making for mankind.  The young in Germany, by and large, tended to be the most enthusiastic followers of the Nazis, particularly students in institutions of higher learning.  Many of them seemed to enjoy having a leader to follow blindly, no longer having the hard work of sorting truth from falsehood on their own.  Ideologies that combine certainty, action, violent rhetoric, scape-goating  and a charismatic leader provide an easy escape in this Vale of Tears from concerns of morality, justice and self-criticism, and that is often attractive for people of all ages, but especially for the young who usually lack the experience to readily recognize when a bill of goods is being sold to them.

 

 

May 10, 1933 Book Burning

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Philip
Philip
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 7:20am

Todays charismatic leader;

“America is not a Christian nation but one of many beliefs.”

“Change America can believe in.”
“You can keep your existing health plan.”
“We will draft a conscience clause within the mandate (HHS).”
“I am a Christian.”

No book burnings..yet, however the History channel I am told, is the next best thing. Our family doesn’t use cable or dish services since 2001. I know…the odd ones. No commercial messages from the screen for thirteen years has been a huge blessing. More time to help neighbors. 🙂

Mary De Voe
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 7:26am

“He who would be the greatest among you must be the servant of all.” Hitler confined his “all” to the Germanic race, excluding all other people. Hitler would not be comfortable in heaven with Jesus Christ, the Jew, Saint Peter, James and John.
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Hitler also believed in “Ice Cosmology”, that the super race came from outer space by means of a space ship that was circling the earth filled with frozen people. Could be, but the fact still remains (redundant redundancy) that these super men from outer space came to earth to find and to follow Jesus Christ…and to serve all, for this is eternal life. There are still some Nazi believers, who grow their ego to megalomania without recourse to Justice, human Justice and Divine Justice.
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How did the Nazis think (oh they chose not to think) they could debate their adversaries without indulging in their adversaries convictions? So, they burnt their adversaries. Even people from outer space have some sense of propriety. People, even from outer space, thrive on Justice.
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I have watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade several times and it gets better each time. I believe Sean Connery received the Oscar for best supporting actor in his role as Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. “With the Holy Grail, the forces of evil will conquer the earth.”…and We, the people will return to earth in a spaceship frozen in time to serve all.

Mary De Voe
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 7:34am

Thank you, Philip, for your collection of indictments against Obama.

Paul W Primavera
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 8:07am

Good post!

Stephen E Dalton
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 8:19am

Most of the ‘books’ burned on that night were the records of the ‘Institute For Sex Research’ that was headed up by the infamous Marcus Hirschfield. The institute was actually a gathering place for sex perverts. The research that was done there was the same type of ‘research’ perverts like Kinsley and Masters and Johnson were to do years later to prove deviant behavior was not so abnormal.
The reason why the Nazi’s burned those records was not because they were outraged at the perversions in them, they were covering their own butts. Many members of the Nazi Party were perverts and they went to the ISR for ‘treatment’. They were concerned that the data in those files might be used against them someday, so to prevent this, they got rid of them in a faked display of moral outrage. This is all documented in Lively’s and Abrams “The Pink Swastika” available from http://www.defendthefamily.com

Thomas Collins
Thomas Collins
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 8:46am

The frightening thing is that one no longer need burn books. They will just disappear from our Kindles and Nooks or be replaced with “updated” editions. In the low-tech old days in the USSR when Beria fell the authorities had to send a five-page article about to every library and school to be pasted into the Soviet Encyclopedia.
No more.

And of course fewer and fewer books by ungoodthinking authors will be published, strictly because there is no market, of course.

Philip
Philip
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 10:51am

Mary DeVoe.

Your welcome.
His words not mine.

I look at him as a thought-police commissioner, not President of the great Nation called United States of America. The son of Lucifer wishes for division. He, the son, has been doing a bang up job for his father.

Ranting again….not good.

I’ll be before the Blessed Sacrament later today asking for a compassionate heart towards all brothers and sisters.
God help our Nation.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 3:19pm

No book burnings..yet, however the History channel I am told, is the next best thing
Awesome Philip!
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Donald do you think free speech the net will be regulated after U. N. Or so called net neutrality?

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 5:24pm

I could be totally wrong here, maybe I am, but it’s my impression that the Chi-Coms are doing a pretty good job of holding back the digital tide.
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That’s an uninformed opinion. If I actually bothered to read the piece Donald linked, I might change my mind.
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Then again, Vladimir Putin wants bloggers to register –like other media “outlets.”

Art Deco
Art Deco
Saturday, May 10, AD 2014 7:26pm

‘research’ perverts like Kinsley and Masters and Johnson

Little doubt someone who wanted to do this research was peculiar. Little doubt also that Alfred Kinsey was addled by sexual perversions (and some of his associates as well, e.g. Wardell Pomeroy). Masters and Johnson were not admirable human beings (I think there were five marriages between them, or some such), but I am not aware that anyone alleged they were known kinkoids; there more salient problem was incompetence. It became grossly evident by 1987 that neither one had the necessary training to conduct social research, a problem they shared with Kinsey and his associates.

Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Sunday, May 11, AD 2014 7:04am

Stephen E Dalton
„Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen. „ (“Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” — Almansor, Heinrich Heine, 1821)

Penguins Fan
Penguins Fan
Sunday, May 11, AD 2014 8:11am

The History Channel has morphed from being, in essence, the World War Two Network to shows about a pawn shop, antiques dealers and a guy from Detroit in Las Vegas who buys, sells and customizes classic cars and motorcycles. There is no more history on History.

The WWII stuff moved to Military History, but they produce no new programming for that network. The rest of the old history programming moved to another network.

There is a plethora of books and movies and programs about the Nazis. The communists have escaped the same scrutiny.

Mary De Voe
Sunday, May 11, AD 2014 8:16am

Stephen E Dalton: Yours is a revelation. Hitler was killing homosexuals and these people were on the list by their own admission. Thank you. Good to know.

WK Aiken
WK Aiken
Monday, May 12, AD 2014 6:58am

“The History Channel has morphed from being, in essence, the World War Two Network to shows about a pawn shop, antiques dealers and a guy from Detroit in Las Vegas who buys, sells and customizes classic cars and motorcycles. There is no more history on History.”

That’s what happened when the bulk of the educated in this country moved out of the 25-44 advertising demographic.

slainte
slainte
Monday, May 12, AD 2014 7:57am

Last night I viewed on the Public Broadcast Service an enactment of Jian Ping’s “The Mulberry Child, A Memoir of China” http://video.pbs.org/program/mulberry-child/.
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Interestingly there was a powerful scene of a great book and document burning carried on by the Red Guard abd the fanatical followers of Mao Zedong during the inception of China’s Cultural Revolution. The reason for burning the books in China…according to Jian Ping it was to wipe out the old order to make room for the New Order.
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MPS’ quote makes sense…to wipe out the old order, one must destroy written evidence first, then humans who recall the old ways, and are likely to resist or cause others to resist.
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Mao Zedong’s communist cultural revolution burned the books and the humans.

TomD
TomD
Monday, May 12, AD 2014 8:45am

While we are on the subject of totalitarians, City Journal last night published The Last Communist City. See http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_2_havana.html

Mary De Voe
Monday, May 12, AD 2014 10:45am

slainte: “MPS’ quote makes sense…to wipe out the old order, one must destroy written evidence first, then humans who recall the old ways, and are likely to resist or cause others to resist.”
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Euthanasia and Common Core.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Monday, May 12, AD 2014 11:04am

Thanks to all of you- I learn so much from you. It really helps me “put things together” to be a part of these discussions. I carry what I learn here to other people and I am certain these insights are all having an impact.

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