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.
Modern burning of libraries. 1  The Central University Library of Bucharest was burnt in the 1989 Romanian Revolution. 2  The Serbs burnt many of Bosnia's libraries and destroyed much of its heritage in the 1990s. 3  The Italian Mafia bombed the Uffizi art gallery in Florence in 1993.