TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase "Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings#The_book-burning_campaign



Submitted February 14, 2015 at 11:11PM by Windows7Guy100 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2vw0y2/til_that_when_the_nazi_party_held_its_first_book/