Horrific.
Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.
-Heinrich Heine
1821
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. Jewish by birth, he converted to Lutheran Christianity as an adult.
(Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.
-Heinrich Heine
1821)
Proven true, eventually, in Nazi Germany.
And..... literally.
(Disclaimer: Yes, I have German blood in my ancestry - probably the highest percentage of my blood ancestry)