ordered that all books be burned
Burned them.
You may be thinking that Hitler & the Nazis burned books. Yes some books that the Nazis did not like were burned, however this was done for publicity. Actually book burnings were not a major feature of Nazi German life. The Germans valued books & education in general, and would have burned anti-Nazi books & books written by Jews.
Charles Darwin's books were burned in Germany by the Nazis because they were considered "un-german"
Adeles books and Angels.
There have been several famous books that have been burned in protest. The Bible has been burned on several occasions. Other books include the Torah, Fahrenheit 451, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and 1984.
Jews
Freud expressed his belief that if his books were burned, they would rise again from the ashes since his ideas were ingrained in the minds of his followers and society. He considered his work to be timeless and influential beyond physical copies of his books.
Out of a Berlin library containing nearly 1 million books, the Nazis specifically selected and burned 20,000 books with homosexual and/or beastiality, urine fetish and feces fetish related topics.
May 1933.
Chinese emperors have the power to easily give order to burn books. But the most famous book-burning incident happened during Qin Dynasty (around 221-206BC), when all of the books, except the books of medicine, adivinar and agriculture, got burned.
As the is An Adolf Hitler question. The Nazi's burned the books to show the hatred to the Jews 20,000 books were burned many by Jews and others like si-fi they didint like imagination also albert ensteins works were burnt because he was a Jew. "Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people" 1823 Heinrich Heine shows how right that is about the Nazis