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Books Burning In Germany
The books burning in Germany, is very disappointing. Heinrich Heine predicted this to happen. They all thought it was a threat to their society. Some books like How to kill a mockingbird, Diary of Anne Frank and others. After all the Nazi’s all thought it was a crime to their government. With all the books, being destroyed led the German’s to burn these books to have a mental pain to all them as people.

The books are very equally right to people and what they read as people. In the Guardian article said that burning a book would be considered facist. With the bible being something that shouldn’t be burned as a book, it makes it more hateful of a idea to do as a country or a state. Which I think some people shouldn’t that wouldn’t be a

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