Did the Nazis actually manage to destroy any of the books and publications that they rounded up and burned?

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OK, that was pretty funny, mate.

>I send greetings to all of my friends: May they live to see the dawn after this long night. I, who am most impatient, go before them.

The book burning was symbolic in nature, it didn't serve the purpose of "destroying" anything. In fact, the Nazis preserved quite a bit of what they considered "degenerate" art.

These sorts of policies need to be seen under the premise of Ludendorff's concept of Total War. In war time, all social life needs to submit to the military imperative, and in that regard anything that could be detrimental to war effort (i.e. free press, certain artistic works that could be seen as anti-war, etc.) needs to vanish from the social sphere.

Whether they would have kept these works banned after the war was over is a different matter however.

poor chap

I doubt they managed to destroy a book, as the books worth destroying spread faster than cancer.

But they managed to destroy some great artworks, namely some stuff by Otto Dix.

Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette