What Is The Primary Reason For The Nazis Burning Books?

Many people have heard of the Nazis burning books during WWII, but book burning have been happening as early as 210 BCE. From 210 BCE to today in all parts of the world certain parties and people have declared a war on books. Books are a way of spreading ideas and influence around the world; powerful men throughout history have done everything in their power to stop them for different reasons. People have stopped the spread of books for varieties of reasons such as protecting their power, religion and to start chaos.
What is most likely the largest reason for book destruction is the protection of power. The first mass book destruction event happened in 221 BCE when Qin Shi Huang ordered to have thousands of confucian books and scholars burned
The Great library of Alexandria was burned down somewhere between the 1st century BCE and the 4th century CE, one theory for why it was burned down was that the people of the city destroyed it because the library was a symbol for wealth and the upper class in the city. In destroying it the people caused chaos throughout the government. According to ancient origins.net there were many possibilities of why the library was destroyed but one large one was the people. “the great library was likely burned down by the citizens of Alexandria in an attempt to undermine the government.” This example shows that people have burned books for reasons of simply to cause chaos. Another example would be the recent destruction of books in Mosul by ISIS last year. When ISIS were doing this they had no other reason for the attack other than a hatred for the people who found those texts sacred people.The reason of hate and chaos is important because it identifies the final reason for book destruction. To conclude the Great Library of Alexandria is a prime example of why some people burn books, to simply cause chaos because of the reasons behind the attack and the