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The What tells you that this statement should not be taken literally?

The narrator says that world war 2 was the result of Germans' love for burning things.

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This is Death's dry irony coming out. On one level, they did burn a lot of things but they, or at least the Nazis burned them out of hate and fear. There was nothing happy about it.

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