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English 8

Viewing: Nazi Book Burning

By the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned. Heinrich Heine, 1821

Glossary
Holocaust = destruction or slaughtering on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war. Genocide = the deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Anti-Semitism = hostility to or prejudice against Jews. Dissemination = the act of spreading something, esp. information, widely; circulation Regime = a government, esp. an authoritarian one. Viewing comprehension questions 1. What is the name NAZI short for? 2. When did they come into power in Germany? 3. Who was the NAZI leader? 4. According to the documentary, what were the NAZI Regimes intentions? 5. What year did the NAZI regime initiate the Second World War? 6. What was the NAZI population policy? 7. Why did the German Nazi Regime want to burn books, art, film, music, etc?

8. According to Iranian Azar Nafisi, what is the first thing every totalitarian regime tries to do, along with confiscation and mutilation of reality? 9. Why is literature dangerous to the Regime?

10. The only thing that cannot be put in jail is the imagination and your ________________.