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  • 2022-02-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Do These Pics Show Book Burnings in 1933 and 2022? (en)
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  • On Feb. 4, 2022, the top post on the front page of Reddit claimed to show two pictures of book burning, one from 1933 and the other from present-day. The post was titled: Book burning in 1933 and again in 2022. This was true. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website, the first picture was taken at a book burning in Opera Square in Berlin, Germany, on May 10, 1933. Opera Square was once known as Opernplatz, but is now known as Bebelplatz. The museum described it as perhaps the most famous book burning in history: The second photograph was taken on Feb. 2, 2022, in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, which is a suburb of Nashville. According to Nashville Scene, Mt. Juliet pastor and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Greg Locke held a book burning in the days after a Tennessee school board voted to ban Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust. Reasons given for the ban included inappropriate language and an illustration of a nude woman, according to The Associated Press. The news was first reported by The Tennessee Holler. The picture was captured by photographer Tyler Salinas. Facebook provided live video hosting of the 2022 book burning. (The burning begins at the 1:04:00 moment in the clip.) Literary Hub noted that Locke had announced the book burning on the previous Sunday during a church service, calling Harry Potter books full-blown witchcraft: Other reports said that books from the Twilight series were also burned. In sum, yes, the top post on Reddit did show book burnings that happened in 1933 in Germany, and in 2022 in Tennessee. (en)
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