the_ignored
8th May 2003, 09:48 PM
This is from a CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/29/book.burning.ap/index.html) story.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Holocaust Museum is marking its 10th year with a display on book burning that includes images from a New Mexico town where Harry Potter books were torched by people who said they teach children to become witches.
The museum put a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" into an exhibit, opening Wednesday, that marks the 70th anniversary of book burnings in Nazi Germany. Near it are three color photos of a bonfire set December 30, 2001, by the Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The Rev. Jack Brock, pastor of the New Mexico church, called Harry Potter books "a masterpiece of satanic deception" when he lit the fire. Across the street from the bonfire, hundreds of protesters, one dressed as Adolf Hitler, formed a line that stretched a quarter-mile. "Stop burning books!" they chanted.
Book burning has become an American byword for censorship, according to the exhibit called "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burning."
On May 10, 1933, the official German University Students' Organization (Studentenschaft) organized bonfires of books its leaders said typified "the Un-German spirit," as defined by the Hitler's new Nazi government. A committee headed by a Nazi official compiled the first blacklist, condemning works by Jews, Marxists, socialists, liberals and others.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Holocaust Museum is marking its 10th year with a display on book burning that includes images from a New Mexico town where Harry Potter books were torched by people who said they teach children to become witches.
The museum put a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" into an exhibit, opening Wednesday, that marks the 70th anniversary of book burnings in Nazi Germany. Near it are three color photos of a bonfire set December 30, 2001, by the Christ Community Church in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The Rev. Jack Brock, pastor of the New Mexico church, called Harry Potter books "a masterpiece of satanic deception" when he lit the fire. Across the street from the bonfire, hundreds of protesters, one dressed as Adolf Hitler, formed a line that stretched a quarter-mile. "Stop burning books!" they chanted.
Book burning has become an American byword for censorship, according to the exhibit called "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burning."
On May 10, 1933, the official German University Students' Organization (Studentenschaft) organized bonfires of books its leaders said typified "the Un-German spirit," as defined by the Hitler's new Nazi government. A committee headed by a Nazi official compiled the first blacklist, condemning works by Jews, Marxists, socialists, liberals and others.