List of authors banned in Nazi Germany
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This list includes both authors whose entire literary production was officially banned in Nazi Germany and authors who were only partially banned.[1] These authors are from the prohibitions lists in Nazi Germany and come from the following lists and others:
- List of damaging and undesirable writing, Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums, December 31, 1938
- Jahreslisten 1939-1941. Unchanged new printing of the Leipzig edition, 1938-1941, Vaduz 1979
The official list was published by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. Authors, living and dead, were placed on the list because of Jewish descent, or because of pacifist or communist and/or Freemasonic sympathies or suspicion thereof.
In May and June 1933, in the first year of the Nazi government, there were book burnings. These book bans compose a part of the history of censorship and a subset of the list of banned books.
After World War II started, Germans created indexes of prohibited books in countries they occupied, of works in languages other than German. For example, in occupied Poland, an index of 1,500 prohibited authors was created.[2]
A[]
- Alfred Adler
- Hermann Adler
- Max Adler
- Raoul Auernheimer
B[]
- Otto Bauer
- Vicki Baum
- Johannes R. Becher
- Richard Beer-Hofmann
- Walter Benjamin
- Hilaire Belloc
- Robert Hugh Benson
- Walter A. Berendsohn
- Ernst Bloch
- Edmund Burke
- Felix Braun
- Bertolt Brecht
C[]
- Flannery O'Connor
- G.K. Chesterton
D[]
E[]
F[]
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Marieluise Fleißer
- Leonhard Frank
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- Egon Friedell
G[]
H[]
- Ernst Haeckel
- Radclyffe Hall
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Walter Hasenclever
- Raoul Hausmann
- Theodor Herzl
- Heinrich Heine
- Ernest Hemingway
- Hermann Hesse
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- Jakob van Hoddis
- Ödön von Horvath
- David Hume
- Karl Hubbuch
- Aldous Huxley
I[]
J[]
K[]
- Erich Kästner
- Franz Kafka
- Georg Kaiser
- Mascha Kaleko
- Hermann Kantorowicz
- John Maynard Keynes
- Karl Kautsky
- Hans Kelsen
- Alfred Kerr
- Irmgard Keun
- Klabund
- Annette Kolb
- Paul Kornfeld
- Peter Kropotkin
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Karl Kraus
- Adam Kuckhoff
L[]
- C. S. Lewis
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Vladimir Lenin
- Karl Liebknecht
- Jack London
- Ernst Lothar
- Emil Ludwig
- Rosa Luxemburg
M[]
- André Malraux
- Heinrich Mann
- Joseph De Maistre
- Klaus Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Thomas More
- Thomas Merton
- Hans Marchwitza
- Ludwig Marcuse
- Karl Marx
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Walter Mehring
- Gustav Meyrink
- Ludwig von Mises
- Erich Mühsam
- Robert Musil
N[]
O[]
P[]
R[]
- Fritz Reck-Malleczewen
- Gustav Regler
- Wilhelm Reich
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Karl Renner
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Joachim Ringelnatz
- Joseph Roth
S[]
- Nelly Sachs
- Felix Salten
- Fulton Sheen
- Rahel Sanzara
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Alvin Schwartz
- Anna Seghers
- Walter Serner
- Ignazio Silone
- Adam Smith
- Joseph Stalin
- Rudolf Steiner
- Carl Sternheim
T[]
- Ernst Toller
- Friedrich Torberg
- B. Traven
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Leon Trotsky
- Mark Twain
- Kurt Tucholsky
V[]
W[]
- Jakob Wassermann
- Armin T. Wegner
- H. G. Wells
- Franz Werfel
- Oscar Wilde
- Simone Weil
- Eugen Gottlob Winkler
- Friedrich Wolf
Z[]
See also[]
External links[]
- List of books banned by the Nazis, from the website Berlin.de
- List of authors banned by the Nazis, from the website verbrannte-und-verbannte.de
References[]
- ^ Verbrannte und verbannte
- ^ Czesław Madajczyk, Polityka III Rzeszy w okupowanej Polsce, Tom II (Politics of the Third Reich in Occupied Poland, Part Two), Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1970, p.125
- ^ Online-Veröffentlichung der Liste der von den Nationalsozialisten verbotenen Schriften.
- Lists of writers
- Nazi culture
- Book censorship
- Nazi-related lists
- Blacklisting
- Lists of prohibited books