WHERE THEY BURN BOOKS, THEY WILL ULTIMATELY BURN PEOPLE AS WELL

Among the thousands of books burned on Berlin's Opernplatz in 1933, following the Nazi raid on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, were works by Heinrich Heine. To commemorate the terrible event, one of the most famous lines of Heine's 1821 playAlmansor was engraved in the ground at the site: "Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." ("That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.")

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet,journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumannand Franz Schubert. 

Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities. 

Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris.

In 1834, 99 years before Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party seized power in Germany, Heine wrote in his work "The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany":

"Christianity – and that is its greatest merit – has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war, but it could not destroy it. Should that subduing talisman, the cross, be shattered, the frenzied madness of the ancient warriors, that insane Berserk rage of which Nordic bards have spoken and sung so often, will once more burst into flame. This talisman is fragile, and the day will come when it will collapse miserably. Then the ancient stony gods will rise from the forgotten debris and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes, and finally Thor with his giant hammer will jump up and smash the Gothic cathedrals. (...)

"Do not smile at my advice – the advice of a dreamer who warns you against Kantians, Fichteans, and philosophers of nature. Do not smile at the visionary who anticipates the same revolution in the realm of the visible as has taken place in the spiritual. Thought precedes action as lightning precedes thunder. German thunder is of true Germanic character; it is not very nimble, but rumbles along ponderously. Yet, it will come and when you hear a crashing such as never before has been heard in the world's history, then you know that the German thunderbolt has fallen at last. At that uproar the eagles of the air will drop dead, and lions in the remotest deserts of Africa will hide in their royal dens. A play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent idyll."

Heine's writings were abhorred by the Nazis and one of its political mouthpieces, the Völkischer Beobachter made noteworthy efforts to attack him in their periodical. Within the pantheon of the "Jewish cultural intelligentsia" chosen for "anti-Semitic demonization," perhaps nobody was the recipient of more National Socialist vitriol than Heinrich Heine.  When a memorial to Heine was completed in 1926, the paper lamented that Hamburg had erected a "Jewish Monument to Heine and Damascus...one in which Alljuda ruled!". Editors for the Völkischer Beobachterreferred to Heine's writing as degenerate on multiple occasions as did the infamous Nazi Alfred Rosenberg. Correspondingly, during the rise of the Third Reich, Heine's writings were banned and burned. It is indeed an irony of history that Heinrich Heine once wrote (as aforementioned), "Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned too."

Book-burning in Nazi Germany

Crematorium in Auschwitz

YES, SI, OUI, DA, IN ANY LANGUAGE, I HAD TO PUBLISH THIS PICTURE OF THE BRAVE JORDANIAN PILOT WHO DIED A HORRIBLE DEATH AT THE HANDS OF FELLOW MUSLIMS...

MAY THE L-RD HAD STOOD AT HIS SIDE AND GAVE HIM COMFORT AND MAY THE 

L-RD GAVE SUCCOR TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

AND YOU...WHOEVER IS SEEING THIS, YOU HAD BETTER REMEMBER THE WORDS OF A GERMAN POET CALLED HEINE...because they are becoming a reality again...MAY THE L-RD HELP US!!!!!