6. a small strip of coloured cloth signifying membership of an order or award of military decoration, prize, or other distinction. 7. a small, usually looped, strip of coloured cloth worn to signify support for a charity or cause: a red AIDS ribbon.
The books burned were Jewish, Marxist, Bolshevik, or other disreputable or non-German books. These included the works of Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Albert Einstein, Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Jack London and Margaret Sanger.
Among serious bibliophiles, several categories of books are considered the rarest and most sought-after texts: 1  A complete first-edition Gutenberg Bible, the first book ever printed in 1456 (estimated worth: $25 to $35 million)  Anything printed before 1501.