just as the Third Reich in Germany tried to destroy so much history with the book-burning and the history of the German tribes, just tried to restart everything by destroying evidence that went before it, here you have ISIS and you have the Taliban and groups like that which are united in their concept of just trying to destroy all evidence of Assyrian civilization, Babylonian, any Christian examples of churches or art in that region.
Royce compares ISIS's destruction of history to the actions of the Third Reich.
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