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

It was not a book burning in the sense that they were literally destroying and banning the books. It was just a symbolic act showing that they no longer tolerated porn or trash literature and some Jew stuff.

One night just a few choice works.

>You have to wonder where his despairing attitude came from

It wasn't necessarily a despairing attitude of "this will never end!" but more that he felt he didn't have the strength to rebuild his life after being on the run, then finally finding refuge but it was so unlike his homeland that it didn't satisfy him, and this on top of encountering other Jewish refugees (some of whom related stories of the horrors going on in Germany) and so on.

His suicide note

>Every day I learned to love this country more, and I would not have asked to rebuild my life in any other place after the world of my own language sank and was lost to me and my spiritual homeland, Europe, destroyed itself.

>But to start everything anew after a man’s 60th year requires special powers, and my own power has been expended after years of wandering homeless. I thus prefer to end my life at the right time, upright, as a man for whom cultural work has always been his purest happiness and personal freedom – the most precious of possessions on this earth.

>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.

Since when was Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad, Joyce or Dostoyevsky pornographic or trash literature?

Since always.

No, it was a symbolic act.

Are you retarded, son? Don't tell me you actually think anything the Nazis produced is good literature. Stuff like Mein Kampf and Myth of the Twentieth Century are absolute trash for mouth breathers.

I suppose you think Pearl Harbor is a good film as well.

How is Pearl Harbor comparable to, say, Dubliners? Pearl Habor is base trash that inspired nobody, while Dubliners widely considered a great work of the English language that not only explores the city of Dublin as it was in 1914 through multiple short stories but is a call to arms for Irish nationalists.

I doubt you've even read a book in your life given you had to refer to a movie to attack my taste.

>Dubliners

Irish folk music is trash mate.

I'd guess that in the modern era it would pretty difficult for one country to destroy all traces of a work that has been disseminated widely enough to be considered prominent.

What I could see happening is a dissident writer's work being stifled before it goes to press and an important work being lost to the world that way (i.e. a stillbirth rather than a murder).

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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