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[[File:Nazi book burning 2116.jpg|link=Nazi Germany|
{{quote|''"That was but a prelude; where they have burned books, they will ultimately also burn people."''|'''Heinrich Heine''', from the 1823 tragic play ''Almansor''.}}
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Compare [[Break-Up Bonfire]], which carries a more personal meaning.
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== [[Anime]]
* In one episode of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', the homunculi burn down one section of the library to stop Edward from getting information on the Philosopher's Stone.
* The ''[[R.O.D the TV]]'' TV series had the British Library burning books that would not fit under their new "unified culture," though the immediate motive seems to have been getting the goat of the bibliophile heroines.
* ''[[Library War]]'' is all about Japan's libraries trying to save what books are left from the Media Betterment Committee and their bonfires.
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* In the ''[[Elemental Logic]]'' quartet, the Library at Kisha was burned early on in the Sainnite invasion, which is considered a great tragedy. The loss of many books and the country's main center of higher education actually led to the Shaftali losing a significant part of their writing system- the meanings of many of their glyphs (ideographs, used along with an alphabet system or separately as part of a system of telling the future) were forgotten in a short period of time because they were slightly esoteric knowledge to begin with, and no lexicon listing the meanings of all the glyphs survived the burning. A large part of the plot of the third book deals with {{spoiler|a time-displaced character stealing a lexicon and hiding it so that the "missing" glyphs can be rediscovered in her present.}}
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* This is what's about to happen in combination with the witch-burning in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' "Gingerbread", when a demon deludes the town's adults into a witch hunt and Buffy and Willow nearly get burned.
* Blanche relates a story about this in ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', and it sounds like she's going to say her father stopped the burning, but all he did was say they should start the fire from the bottom.
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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': The Fire Nation (appropriately enough) broke into [[The Library of Babel]] to burn down an entire section, since it contained information that could harm them.
▲* Okay, we aren't suppose to list [[Real Life]] examples because the list would be huge so [[wikipedia:List of book burning incidents|here's a list of book burning incidents]] and a list of [[wikipedia:Destruction of libraries|libraries destroyed throughout history]]. See why they can't be listed?
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