Isis burns people and books, but ideas will remain the. On may 10, 1933, german students under the nazi regime burned tens of thousands of books nationwide. This clip was on the philadelphia station of cbs news in 2005. The nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the german student union to ceremonially burn books in nazi germany and austria in the 1930s. The khmer rouge was a brutal regime that ruled cambodia, under the leadership of marxist dictator pol pot, from 1975 to 1979. Isis burns people and books, but ideas will remain. The story of the killing fields, phnom penh the stupid bear.
When the communist party of kampuchea and the khmer rouge 19511981 established their regime as democratic kampuchea 19751979 in cambodia, their antiintellectualism which idealised the country and demonised the cities was immediately imposed on the country in order to establish agrarian socialism, thus, they emptied cities in order to. On may 10, 1933 student groups at universities across germany carried out a series of book burnings of works that the students and leading nazi party members associated with an ungerman spirit. Act perpetrated by the nazis who burned thousands of books in the. He said that pol pot asked him to burn their corpses after death. In the annals of the centurys great crimes against humanity, the nazi leadership. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to nazism. When the perpetrators started burning peoples houses. The holocaust, from 1939 to 1945, and the cambodian genocide, from 1975 to 1979, took the lives of many bodies and wrecked the hearts of even more. In its offenses against the cham muslims, the khmer rouge desecrated or destroyed mosques, burned copies of the koran and other sacred. The khmer proverb when broken glass floats refers to the moment when good triumphs over evil. The 10 best books about the khmer rouge in cambodia.
Explain how the nazis and the khmer rouge each rose to. Distinguishing themes of genocidal ideology at the killing fields memorial near phnom penh, shelves filled. From the killing fields in the khmer rouge, to pol pot and hitler both dying before they were held accountable for their crimes against humanity, and everything inbetween. The cambodian genocide was carried out by khmer rouge under the leadership of pol pot. In cambodia, the khmer rouge regime burned more than 80 percent of the. The book drew on accounts from refugees, and an abridged version published in.
It features survivor hardy kupferberg and information on the nowtraveling exhibit fighting the fires of hate by ushmm. Hasdrubal, finally surrendered, his wife appeared before him at a burning temple. But the fact that these bookkeepers of death did everything they. Perhaps the most chilling words ever written about book burning were penned in 1821 by the great german poet. Others argue that the holocaust started in the autumn of 1941, when nazi germany began to.
From the book of atrocities, the evil fable begins like this. Indeed, in their bloodlust and zealotry, the book burners of isis have many antecedents crusaders, mongols, nazis, wahhabis, khmer rouge. When comparing the nazi regime in germany under hitler to the khmer rouge, there are some striking similarities. After completing a scholarship in france, pol pot the future khmer rouge leader re. The nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the german student union the dst to ceremonially burn books in nazi germany and austria in the. On 17 april 1975 the khmer rouge under pol pot came into phnom penh. Better known as duch, this 67yearold former khmer rouge official. Professor kiernan is the author and editor of many books and articles on south. But isis too will find that it is easier to slaughter human beings than to destroy ideas. Both her parents were slaughtered and five of her siblings died of starvation or illness. Escaping the khmer rouge somaly lun world news the guardian.
Duch never met pol pot, or brother number one, and eichmann never met hitler. Exploring the evidence the holocaust, cambodian genocide, and. Khmer rouges rule, said the history books would remember nuon. The publication of this book is made possible by a grant from the ministry of. She was only 15 when the khmer rouge seized control of cambodia. Just two days before the vietnamese army discovered s21 prison, deeds and delance were burned alive. Learn the story of choeung ek genocidal center or the killing fields in phnom penh and how the massacre of thousands change cambodia by the khmer rouge. The fires continued into tibet with the communist red guard in 1966. Hannah arendt used the phrase the banality of evil to describe adolf eichmann, the nazi bureaucrat who hastened millions to their deaths. She deliberately concealed her story from her children, hiding books about. Additionally, pol pot, head of the khmer rouge, and adolf hitler, head of the nazis, both wanted to create a perfect world through their acts of genocide.