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I don't see where suggesting that we read Shirer constitutes advocating piracy. The extracts were few and small, and I am sure legal at that time and probably still legal, both in Germany and the USA.
They were probably published with approval of the then copyright holder, just as Shirer was meticulous in getting co-operation from Franz Halder, for example, for extensive quotes from Halder's diary. I would have to dig out my rather tattered and ancient old paperback copy of Shirer and recheck all the (many) copyright and citation notes to see, and at this stage of the evening I don't much feel like it.
As for the burning of the Library, I was referring, mildly tongue in check, to the two main mythical versions of the burning: the Christians burned it because it was full of pagan books and therefore immoral; or Moslems burned it because it was full of pagan books, etc.
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