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.
No one seems to realize that the affected or harmed-by-the-sun concepts are entirely merely 20th century media inventions, and nothing more. ~~~ Depends on what 'type' of vampire. Vampires from older books (like books writen a few centeries ago) usually burn in sunlight.