{"id":58923,"date":"2024-01-04T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T17:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=58923"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T18:41:36","slug":"does-literature-provide-a-handbook-for-mass-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/01\/does-literature-provide-a-handbook-for-mass-murder.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Books Provide an Agenda for Mass Murder?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That is a key question posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaschahannover.com\">Jascha Hannover<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaschahannover.com\/projects\/the-books-he-didnt-burn\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jaschahannover.com\/projects\/the-books-he-didnt-burn\">&#8220;The Books He Didn&#8217;t Burn,&#8221;<\/a> a documentary to be featured in its U.S. premiere at the Jewish Film Festival on Jan. 15 at Lincoln Center in New York.  Its relevance to the beliefs of today&#8217;s white supremacists and rightwing Christian nationalists is stunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Books He Didn&#039;t Burn | Inside Hitler&#039;s Private Library. Official Trailer.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-uj5O8LDB2k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hitlers-bible-365.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"314\" data-attachment-id=\"58933\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/hitlers-bible-365\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hitlers-bible-365.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"365,314\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hitler&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;bible&amp;#8217; (365)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hitlers-bible-365-300x258.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hitlers-bible-365.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hitlers-bible-365.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58933\" style=\"width:174px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hitlers-bible-365.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hitlers-bible-365-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Hitler&#8217;s &#8216;bible.&#8217;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaschahannover.com\/projects\/the-books-he-didnt-burn\"><strong>Hannover&#8217;s movie takes a critical look at the history of Western thought by examining the remains of Adolf Hitler\u2019s private library. The dictator and mass murderer owned 16,000 books at the end of his life, 1,200 of which are kept in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C today. The movie follows American historian Timothy Ryback, who studied these books for almost a decade. Hitler\u2019s private library shows that he sprang from a long line of racist and anti-semitic thinkers and writers, many of them representing the intellectual mainstream of their time. The hateful ideas in them paved the way for Hitler \u2013 and influence far-right extremists until this day.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is a key question posed by Jascha Hannover&#8217;s &#8220;The Books He Didn&#8217;t Burn,&#8221; a documentary to be featured in its U.S premiere at the Jewish Film Festival on Jan. 15 at Lincoln Center in New York. 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