With one act, they set the trans community back decades
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Should I be amazed how people here are stupid enough to believe it?
Most of it in Germany 1933 during the public ceremonies was any work of any contemporary author who was critical of them, be it German or foreign.
Over here in Warsaw they destroyed just any Polish book they could find, and in general they closed down and often destroyed every library in the abolished country. But especially they sought out (and that also in private collections) any sort of patriotic or nationalist literature, and educational books in Polish language (and for example any maps showing Poland on them), as a part of their work of annihilating the Polish culture.
They also arrested (and in many cases then unceremoniously executed in the places like Palmiry forest, along with school teachers and such) thousands of Polish authors and librarians alike.
https://www.dw.com/en/when-books-were-burned-in-germany/a-43725960
And if you meant to "name one" writer murdered at Palmiry (specifically, but there were many other execution sites for the extermination of Polish elites), for example the Warsaw University professors Stefan Kopeć (biologist) and Kazimierz Zakrzewski (historian) who co-wrote the Polish Popular Encyclopedia, or the poet and publisher Stefan Napierski.
(By chance, Napierski had translated to Polish one of the German books that have been burned: All Quiet on the Western Front.)