To put a finer historical point on it, the very concept that "the Nazis burned books" is flatly untrue. I say this to emphasize how deeply this false "fact" has seeped into history. Some may have an immediate reaction to this if they just watched the video and saw Nazi officials and members of the SA standing around as books burned, but we need to take a closer look.
The Nazis, recognizing along with many others the corrosive and subversive nature of certain "literature", approved of the voluntary destruction of it. But beyond that, there is no documentation that the NSDAP:
published a list of books to ban
confiscated books
personally destroyed books or commanded their destruction
organized, directed, supported, or even encouraged any groups--such as the GSA--to do so
I never uncovered a single official document or publication from the NSDAP--let alone legislation--regarding the burning of books. All in all, the idea that "Nazis burned books" is about as erroneous and "Trump made everyone wear red hats".
In fact, I turned up the original prewar article about book burning from "The Guardian", and it seems obvious black propaganda by Western warmongers. You can get that link and others along with more discussion in this old post:
up until world war II Germans were the leading experts of history. amazing insights were coming out that country, no way in hell they were burning books.
Also, I think when the NSDAP founded the Ahnenerbe and that group started looking all around the world asking questions like, "Wait--who were the Aryans exactly? And where did they come from? And what what do we find in history when we start tracing back along their path?", and then they started finding answers to those questions, well, somebody somewhere said, "Okay, we gotta shut that shit down!"
Now the whole narrative boils down to "racial supremacists eugenically breeding a race of occult supermen". And people now "know" that for a fact.
Decent but with a bias. It's good to have the full text of the student union's "theses" and there is almost neutral coverage of the sexual degradation of 30s Germany and brief salient mention of the Night of Long Knives.
The bias is to present book-burning as "good" because of the purported motive of escaping that cultural degradation. The reality as documented by Scott Lively and others is that the NSDAP used public morality as an excuse for selective and thus biased enforcement against enemies.
The sequence of events was that, immediately after the NSDAP election of 1933-01, the students in 30+ campuses began plans for burning "destructive" books and circulating lists; this was obviously coordinated community organization, as the Sex Institute event shows, but the NSDAP involvement in riling up the students was hidden. Unlike Luther's students, who burned tracts independently over his protest (not for self-purging but for celebrating a raid), the German student unions were shepherded by their sponsors. When the day came for the Sex Institute to be sacked (most of its personal records being burned publicly four days later), the students and SA worked together to overrun and commandeer the entire property, with the SA performing the vast seizures necessary, claimed by both Levy-Lenz and the NYT each as having 40,000 volumes (many of which were patient records). The public burning was essentially onetime, where the campuses conducted small fires in conjunction with Himmler's one big fire of the Sex Institute records (complete with Hirschfeld's bust), and there were very few other incidents afterward (which is misreported here as if the Sex Institute sack were the beginning of a movement rather than the end of an operation).
This indicates to me that the laudable motive of ridding evil, which we see in the New Testament book-burning in Ephesus, was deliberately repurposed by the NSDAP to destroy patient records, for the specific and documented reason that so many NSDAP officials had them (Sex Institute counseling being required for all convicted homosexuals). The video recognizes the rampant immorality documented, and in part fanned, by Hirschfeld, but it does not connect the dots to the very useful purpose that the NSDAP had in destroying the work of Hirschfeld and Levy-Lenz, which was known at the time but which could not be spoken of publicly, namely the excessive immorality in the NSDAP's own ranks. The later Night of Long Knives demonstrates the widespread existence of this fact, but is again cover, a performative purge of then-useless deviants (like Rohm) without addressing the satanic inspiration of other deviants remaining in "good graces".
In the present day, books are not burned but flooded by being surrounded by a hundredfold more babel than signal. The answer is still the kingdom of Jesus Christ over any political system of opaque performative narration and hidden ritual abuse.
To put a finer historical point on it, the very concept that "the Nazis burned books" is flatly untrue. I say this to emphasize how deeply this false "fact" has seeped into history. Some may have an immediate reaction to this if they just watched the video and saw Nazi officials and members of the SA standing around as books burned, but we need to take a closer look.
The Nazis, recognizing along with many others the corrosive and subversive nature of certain "literature", approved of the voluntary destruction of it. But beyond that, there is no documentation that the NSDAP:
I never uncovered a single official document or publication from the NSDAP--let alone legislation--regarding the burning of books. All in all, the idea that "Nazis burned books" is about as erroneous and "Trump made everyone wear red hats".
In fact, I turned up the original prewar article about book burning from "The Guardian", and it seems obvious black propaganda by Western warmongers. You can get that link and others along with more discussion in this old post:
The nazis burned books while attempting to rise in power which is why I believe we need to become scribes and download important videos and print or archive every article you see as these will be wiped from the internet the same way it’s impossible to find 9/11 theories o
up until world war II Germans were the leading experts of history. amazing insights were coming out that country, no way in hell they were burning books.
Right, I think that's an excellent point.
Also, I think when the NSDAP founded the Ahnenerbe and that group started looking all around the world asking questions like, "Wait--who were the Aryans exactly? And where did they come from? And what what do we find in history when we start tracing back along their path?", and then they started finding answers to those questions, well, somebody somewhere said, "Okay, we gotta shut that shit down!"
Now the whole narrative boils down to "racial supremacists eugenically breeding a race of occult supermen". And people now "know" that for a fact.
Decent but with a bias. It's good to have the full text of the student union's "theses" and there is almost neutral coverage of the sexual degradation of 30s Germany and brief salient mention of the Night of Long Knives.
The bias is to present book-burning as "good" because of the purported motive of escaping that cultural degradation. The reality as documented by Scott Lively and others is that the NSDAP used public morality as an excuse for selective and thus biased enforcement against enemies.
The sequence of events was that, immediately after the NSDAP election of 1933-01, the students in 30+ campuses began plans for burning "destructive" books and circulating lists; this was obviously coordinated community organization, as the Sex Institute event shows, but the NSDAP involvement in riling up the students was hidden. Unlike Luther's students, who burned tracts independently over his protest (not for self-purging but for celebrating a raid), the German student unions were shepherded by their sponsors. When the day came for the Sex Institute to be sacked (most of its personal records being burned publicly four days later), the students and SA worked together to overrun and commandeer the entire property, with the SA performing the vast seizures necessary, claimed by both Levy-Lenz and the NYT each as having 40,000 volumes (many of which were patient records). The public burning was essentially onetime, where the campuses conducted small fires in conjunction with Himmler's one big fire of the Sex Institute records (complete with Hirschfeld's bust), and there were very few other incidents afterward (which is misreported here as if the Sex Institute sack were the beginning of a movement rather than the end of an operation).
This indicates to me that the laudable motive of ridding evil, which we see in the New Testament book-burning in Ephesus, was deliberately repurposed by the NSDAP to destroy patient records, for the specific and documented reason that so many NSDAP officials had them (Sex Institute counseling being required for all convicted homosexuals). The video recognizes the rampant immorality documented, and in part fanned, by Hirschfeld, but it does not connect the dots to the very useful purpose that the NSDAP had in destroying the work of Hirschfeld and Levy-Lenz, which was known at the time but which could not be spoken of publicly, namely the excessive immorality in the NSDAP's own ranks. The later Night of Long Knives demonstrates the widespread existence of this fact, but is again cover, a performative purge of then-useless deviants (like Rohm) without addressing the satanic inspiration of other deviants remaining in "good graces".
In the present day, books are not burned but flooded by being surrounded by a hundredfold more babel than signal. The answer is still the kingdom of Jesus Christ over any political system of opaque performative narration and hidden ritual abuse.
of course it sounds familiar, I didn't become a fascist yesterday