Nazi Book Burnings
By Leo Gura - June 2, 2025
If a conservative ever tries to tell you that Nazis were leftist socialists, ask him this simple question:
What kind of books did Nazis burn? Conservative books or liberal books?
If Nazis were leftists, please explain why they burned leftist books.
They burned books written by Jews, half-Jews, communists, socialists, anarchists, liberals, democrats, pacifists, sexologists, LGBTQ.
And remember, “Jew” here doesn’t mean literal Jews, it’s Nazi-speak for anything of the left. Even anything of the democratic center. Anything that contradicts the far-right is considered “Jewish”. This is how Nazis think.
Left, democratic, and “Jewish” literature was priority #1 for burning.
Joseph Goebbels delivered an address: “No to decadence and moral corruption! Yes to decency and morality in family and state!”
Who speaks like that? All conservatives.
What was burned:
- Marxism, Communism and Bolshevic literature
- Pacifist literature
- Anything written by Jews, Albert Einstein, etc.
- Liberal arts, “decadent” art
- Writing on sexuality and sex education
- Pornography
- Popular entertainment literature
- All books degrading German purity
- Authors from foreign countries
“The era of extreme Jewish intellectualism is now at an end. The breakthrough of the German revolution has again cleared the way on the German path…The future German man will not just be a man of books, but a man of character. It is to this end that we want to educate you. As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death – this is the task of this young generation.” — Joseph Goebbels
“Jewish intellectualism” is just a code-word for anything leftist, liberal, democratic.
Today, which side — left or right, liberal or conservative — is banning books about sex education, LGBTQ, gays, trans, gender theory, “pornography”, “pedophilia”, critical race theory, black history/slavery, post-modernism, DEI, Marxism?
I’m not asking whether you agree with these books. I’m asking which political faction wants to ban them? Which political worldview is outraged and offended by the existence of such books and such art?
If you want to know someone’s true political philosophy, just look at which books they want banned. This cuts through the BS.
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