Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi GermanyOxford University Press, 01.06.2016 - 224 Seiten Like every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom through book censorship. Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control of all forms of communication. In 1933 alone, there were 90 book burnings across 70 German cities, declared by a Ministry of Propaganda official to be "a symbol of the revolution." In later years, the regime used less violent means of domination, pillaging bookstores and libraries, in addition to prosecuting uncooperative publishers and dissident authors. Guenter Lewy deftly analyzes the various strategies that the Nazis employed to enact censorship and the government officials who led the attack on a free intellectual life. Harmful and Undesirable paints a fascinating portrait of intellectual life under Nazi dictatorship, detailing the dismal fate of those who were caught in the wheels of censorship. |
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Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany Guenter Lewy,Professor Emeritus of Political Science Guenter Lewy Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2020 |
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April Barbian Benn Bergengruen Berlin Bibliotheken Blunck book bans book burning book trade bookstores Bormann Börsenblatt Bouhler Buch Bücher Buchhandel Catholic censorship confiscated cultural December decree Department VIII Deutsche Bücherei deutschen Deutschland Dritten Reich edited Ernst Jünger Ernst Wiechert Fachschaft Verlag February forbidden Führer Gerhart Hauptmann German literature Germany’s Gestapo Goebbels Handbuch der Reichsschrifttumskammer Hanns Johst Harmful and Undesirable head Hederich Hermann Hess Himmler Hinkel Hitler ideological Ihde included Index Inner Emigration issued January Jewish authors Jews Johst July June Jünger Kampfbund lending libraries librarians Literaturpolitik im NSStaat March memo Minister Ministry of Propaganda Munich National Socialist National Socialist ideology Nationalsozialismus Nationalsozialistische Nazi Germany Nazi regime November NSDAP October organization police political propaganda ministry public libraries published Reichsschrifttumskammer Reichsstelle RMfVP to RSK Rosenberg Rust Schriftsteller Schrifttums September Thomas Mann Undesirable Books Vertrauliche Mitteilungen Völkischer Beobachter Weimar Wilhelm Wismann writings Zeitschrift der Leihbücherei