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.
The Burning of Books A hundred years before the advent of Hitler, the German-Jewish poet, Heinrich Heine, had declared: Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.. May 10, 1933 - Students and storm troopers on the Opera Square in Berlin with books and writings deemed unGerman..elow: A truckload of confiscated books arrives and is doled out to the students for burning. Below: Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels addresses the gathering-putting it all in context for his young audience. Below: The bonfire rages as books are tossed. Below: Nazi salutes and anthems accompany the smoldering pile.