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.
Johannes Gutenberg got rid of the woodblock ideas and tried to work with metal. He decided it worked very well and was completing the first book ever printed by his new invention, which was movable type. The first book was the Bible, which was printed in Latin. His invention was called the printing press. Soon enough the blacksmith that Johannes Gutenberg was working for lost faith in him and decided to take him to court. The judge favored with Fust, so everything Gutenberg worked on and owned belonged to Fust. Johannes Gutenberg ended up dying in Mainz, Germany in 1468.