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.
In addition, the catalogue of the exhibition referred to the book burning of 'decadent' authors, and a brochure, available free to visitors, reminded readers that Fascists utilized the complete arsenal of censorship-exile, imprisonment, and murder-as well as the banning and burning of books. 46.