6. a small strip of coloured cloth signifying membership of an order or award of military decoration, prize, or other distinction. 7. a small, usually looped, strip of coloured cloth worn to signify support for a charity or cause: a red AIDS ribbon.
The books burned were Jewish, Marxist, Bolshevik, or other disreputable or non-German books. These included the works of Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Albert Einstein, Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Jack London and Margaret Sanger.
It is estimated that 1.2 million books were destroyed, the largest book burning in history. The book Burning Books by Haig Bosmajian reports that in 1976, a great book-burning...was shown on television in Argentina.he book was found guilty and condemned by the court. All the copies in Paris that could be found were gathered together-twenty-four cartloads of scrolls-and burned. The Papal Bull of 1520 ordered the burning of Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible.