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.
Burning the books means burning the true literature. It is burning all the truth that people may have never known and is putting lies into their heads. Eisenhowerâs statement has a lot to do with the Nazi book burning event and how it all started. It also has relations to censorship and Platoâs Allegory of the Cave. The Nazi book burning occurred on May 10th 1933. The book burning was a ritual destruction by a bonfire. It was the burning of books and other materials that were written.