December 13, 1797: Heinrich Heine is born.
This German poet once observed that wherever books are burned, people are burned, too, in the end.
His words turned out to be prophetic, as his own books would be burnt by the Nazis during the 1930s.
“Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bucher verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen”
translates as
“That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also”.