School book bans reek of Nazi Germany Published 6:08 pm Tuesday, March 22, 2022 One of the most visible signs of intolerance run amok, whether in Germany in 1938 or America in 2022, is a clamor to ban books. Those of us who grew up in the post-World War II era can recall newsreels featuring Adolph Hitler’s minions fueling bonfires with the books they had confiscated — books that, for the most part, didn’t preach the gospel of German superiority so important to Hitler’s plan to erase much of civilization as it existed up to that time. Those images were...