Book burning is incorrectly thrown out as a form of censorship and a hallmark of fascism by many people.
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Goebbels spoke before 40,000 spectators as the libraries of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft were burned.
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These libraries contained the sum of all modern knowledge of transgender people. This knowledge has still not been reclaimed.
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A monument stands here now. Below the ground. It is empty shelves of a library.pic.twitter.com/w587KXq2f0
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These shelves contained everything about people like me. Hormone studies still never repeated.
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Of all the memorials I have seen, this is the first to reduce me to tears. I am standing over it now, weeping.
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We have the technology to make this never happen again. But we won't spend the money to rebuild that knowledge.
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It's left to the people like us to collect our records and tell our stories, shouting them into the wind until they are heard.
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So many of us don't have the voice. But we shout anyways. I'm just going to keep shouting.
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I'm not 100% certain exactly what point you're trying to make - re: the Nazis - however I did come across this page vis-à-vis Book Burning.
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Read the thread to see the point. The specific burning was to destroy a trove of sexology knowledge - we still fell the effects today.
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I got that bit... I'm more wondering about the initial premise "Book burning is incorrectly thrown out as a form of censorship and ..."
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Wording of the character limit. It is meant to mean that it is not the hallmark of Naziism that people think it is
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It's been practiced by statist authoritarian systems all throughout the political spectrum.
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If you asked me to name unique marks of 20th C fascism, it wouldn't make the list.
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Besides the term Hallmark implies a distinctive quality... while book burning is present in pretty much all societies.
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So I think it would be fair to suggest that Book Burning is a Hallmark of fascist-like regimes (in the 20th C). (As a general rule).
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Emily, thank you.The empty shelves...so much Hx, information, human endeavor...gone.Fromashes comes fierce justice
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Crystal nackt, can't spell but I know what you mean.
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Was recently in Berlin with my wife and saw this or a similar monument. The empty book shelves are haunting.
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