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Book burning (a category of biblioclasm, or book destruction) is the practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times, other forms of media, such as phonograph records, video tapes, and CDs have also been ceremoniously burned, torched, or shredded. The practice, usually carried out in public, is generally motivated by moral,... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Harry Potter.

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Religious debates over the Harry Potter series Accordingly, Harry Potter has been the subject of at least three local book burnings.

Religious debates over Harry Potter Accordingly, Harry Potter has been the subject of at least three local book burnings.

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Nazi book burnings Not all book burnings took place on May 10, as the German Student Association had planned.

Dietrich Klagges Only a few days later, the first book burnings took place in Braunschweig at the Schlossplatz.

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Institut für Sexualwissenschaft By 22 May, book-burnings had occurred in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Göttingen, Cologne, Hamburg, Dortmund, Halle, Nuremberg, Würzburg, Hannover, Münster, Königsberg, Koblenz, and Salzburg.

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    Book burning

    Book burning (a category of biblioclasm, or book destruction) is the practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, one or more copies of a book or other written material.
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    Yad Vashem Books burned by Nazis by David Shankbone

    Nazi book burnings

    Books burned by the Nazis on display at Yad Vashem. ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Book Burning
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    Burning of books and burying of scholars

    Beginning in 213 BCE, all classic works of the Hundred Schools of Thought — except those from Li Si's own school of philosophy known as legalism — were subject to book burning.
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    Book

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    List of banned books

    Links related to Banned Books Week and book burning ... Video games Methods Book burning · Bleeping
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    Fahrenheit 451

    The number "451" refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which the books burn when the "firemen" burn them "for the good of humanity". ... Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with the censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony.
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    Education for Death

    The scene involving the book burning is part of the ending compilation of Nazi transformation and destruction.
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    Greater Victoria Public Library

    "Book-Burning Plan Blamed on Murdoch."
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    Burning of Jaffna library

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    Bebelplatz

    Today a glass plate set into the Bebelplatz, giving a view of empty bookcases, commemorates the book burning. ... Monument to the May 10, 1933 Book burning

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