Kentucky district official invokes Adolf Hitler in defense of 'pornography' book challenged by mom
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Kentucky district called Jefferson County media specialist invoked Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in her defense of a pornographic novel called 'Gender Queer.'
Students are collecting books for the book burning on Berlin's Opernplatz. The books are being uploaded and piled up to pyres. On May 10th 1933, "undeutsches Schrifttum" ("Un-German" literature) was being burned in many German university towns. (Getty Images) Bookburning at the Opernplatz in Berlin. During the campaign "against the un-German spirit" Dr. Josef Goebels speaks to members of student organizations. 1933. (Imagno/Getty Image) A crowd of 40,000 people watch 'un-German' books, by authors not considered to conform to Nazi ideaology, being burned in the Opernplatz, Berlin, 10th May 1933. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Hannah Grossman is an associate editor at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent on Twitter: @GrossmanHannah.
"I don't want to be too dramatic. But I want to be clear. Hitler banned and burned over 25,000 books… because they were viewed as representing ideologies opposed to Nazis," Reynolds said as part of her defense of "Gender Queer."
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