Video: The Truth About The National Socialist Book Burning

While I had always been propagandized concerning the German National Socialist Workers Party's burning of books, it wasn't until a few years ago that I started seeing discussion of what books were being burnt. Most people probably assume that the National Socialists were focused on burning books authored by Jews and hostile to the National Socialist movement. And probably most of the books burned were authored by Jews, but it was the nature of the books that got them burned. As this video explains, the vast majority of books banned and burned consisted of pornography, favorable or encouraging of LGBQT+ and other sexual deviancy, and communist. 

VIDEO: "The National Socialist Book Burnings 1933 - The Truth"

Zoomer Historian (11 min.)

    Funny enough, I saw a post at Instapundit yesterday complaining that the ChatGPT and Gemini AI applications were censoring as harmful any content from Lenny Bruce, who the snippet of the article described as having "shocked contemporary society in the 1950s and 60s with his profanity laden standup routines."

Bruce’s material broke political, religious, racial, and sexual taboos and led to frequent censorship in the media, bans from venues as well as to his arrest and conviction for obscenity. But his style inspired many other standup legends and Bruce has long since gone from outcast to hall of famer. As recognition of Bruce’s enormous impact he was even posthumously pardoned in 2003.

Sometime in the past year or two, I'd come across a piece describing how Jews had historically coarsened public speech and entertainment, with complaints of this fact going back at least two thousand years. And "Lenny Bruce" seemed an oddly banal name. Suspicious, I did a quick Google search and sure enough, per Wikipedia, Bruce's real name was Leonard Alfred Schneider and he was Jewish. He had been drummed out of Navy during World War II because of a drag show he put on for his fellow crew members that had severely upset his commanding officers (he confessed to a Navy psychologist he had homosexual urges). Nevertheless, he went on to what was apparently a successful comedy career. But, the article notes: "Branded a 'sick comic', Bruce was essentially blacklisted from television, and when he did appear, thanks to sympathetic fans like [Hugh] Hefner and Steve Allen, it was with great concessions to Broadcast Standards and Practices."