Yep, yet another dark page in the history of mankind.
What a painful reminder this must be!
My heart goes out to the German Jewish community, and many thanks for their amazing courage to speak up! This is so saddening. Clearly humanity is going backwards. If we haven't learned anything from our mistakes in the past and then look around us only to see our world in even more disarray and full of hatred, how can we really claim to be civilized?
Knobloch said the planned action by the Dove World Outreach Center reminded her of the burning of "un-German" literature organised by the Nazi party in 1933 that foreshadowed the killing of some 6 million Jews during World War Two.
"Where people burn books, in the end they burn people," she said in a statement, referring to a quotation from 19th century German author Heinrich Heine inscribed on a plaque in central Berlin where the Nazis burned books.