May 10th 1933 Huge Nazi Book Burning Rituals Poem by Terence George Craddock

why is a book a collection of words so dangerous it requires
physical annihilation obliteration destruction in pagan ritual

in 1933 the National Socialist German Workers Party Nazis
for short established a dictatorship under leader Adolf Hitler
reorganized the state with a decree announced German Race
was superior to all others in Europe suppressed all decent it

was a crime to criticize the regime new propaganda ministry
of enlightenment controls German culture art literature theatre
film music all entertainment all news April 1933 Nazi students
organize a nation wide book burning planned to eliminate all

foreign influence to purify German Aryan Culture universities
students professors determine categories un-German scour
libraries not to suppress culture but to advance Aryan German
culture shocked an educated highly intelligent nation will burn

books until this time books had not hurt anybody until Hitler
writes a book to enflame racial hatred May 10th 1933 in each
Germany university city in 34 cities thousands gather in public
books confiscated by Nazi students Nazi officials with police

help are dumped in huge piles student leaders exhort crowd
to swear an oath by book burning fire to destroy subversive
un-German literature revenge debt for foreign treason against
German soldiers in World War I an amazing variety of books

were burned all dangerous why because they were not approved
eighty ninety thousand volumes burn burn in dark German night