Smithsonian: A Brief History of Book Burning, From the Printing Press to Internet Archives

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With the trump government dismantling and tearing down institutions, it seems like the Nazi book burning. Here is an article, but it says the perpetrators feel like victims, which is not the case now

The unifying factor between all types of purposeful book-burners in the 20th century, Rebecca Knuth says, is that the perpetrators feel like victims, even if they’re the ones in power. Perhaps the most infamous book burnings were those staged by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who regularly employed language framing themselves as the victims of Jews. Similarly, when Mao Zedong took power in China and implemented the Cultural Revolution, any book that didn’t conform to party propaganda, like those promoting capitalism or other dangerous ideas, were destroyed.

Book burning in front of the opera in Berlin on 10 May 1933 (“Action against the un-German spirit”.) – Students and Nazi party memebers throw forbidden books into the flames. Photo; later colorisation.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-book-burning-printing-press-internet-archives-180964697/

Rebecca Knuth, author of Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century

Libricide book
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/libricide-9780275980887/