Irony and Book Burning (Kennie)

Irony means the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. The Nazi where one group of people who burnt books back in the 1900’s, they burned 18,000 in public and 25,000 more books including works by Albert Einstein, Vicki Baum, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Heine, Helen Keller, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Erich Maria Remarque, Frank Wedekind, Ernest Hemingway and H.G. Wells. Also in May 1940, Belgium was destroyed by the German army and 900,000 books where burned. This was after 300,000 more books were burned in WWI at the same library. The Nazi where burning specific books, the Nazi burned books of the Jewish authors. Do I see irony in people finding motivation to burn books? No I don’t, I think that to burn a book and erase someone’s work from history, you have to want to do it or hate that someone. I think they find their motivation to burn a book in a book, if its against their beliefs or like how the Nazi burned only Jewish books.