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Wells' book was banned in Nazi Germany. [124] The World of William Clissold: H. G. Wells: 1926 Novel Banned in Nazi Germany in 1936. A further note to the banning order added that "all other works by the author" were to be suppressed. [125] All Quiet on the Western Front: Erich Maria Remarque: 1929 Anti-war novel
Book censorship is the act of some authority taking measures to suppress ideas and information within a book. Censorship is "the regulation of free speech and other forms of entrenched authority". [1] Censors typically identify as either a concerned parent, community members who react to a text without reading, or local or national ...
A memorial on Bebelplatz, site of a Nazi book burning in May 1933. Empty shelves are visible through a window in the pavement. Empty shelves are visible through a window in the pavement. This list includes both authors whose entire literary production was officially banned in Nazi Germany and authors who were only partially banned. [ 1 ]
Censorship was enforced through the requirement to have a government license to publish books or newspapers, and the mandatory use of an impressum on printed material to identify authors and publishers. However, the city-republics such as Frankfurt and Hamburg tended to have a free press, a rarity in 19th century Germany. [4]
With this in mind, they supplied the German diaspora with both banned literary works and with Alternative media critical of the regime, and, in defiance of Nazi censorship laws, their books, newspapers, and magazines were smuggled into the homeland and both read and distributed in secret by the German people. [14]
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The Federal Republic of Germany guarantees freedom of speech, expression, and opinion to its citizens as per Article 5 of the constitution.Despite this, censorship of various materials has taken place since the Allied occupation after World War II and continues to take place in Germany in various forms due to a limiting provision in Article 5, Paragraph 2 of the constitution.
The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (German: Deutsche Studentenschaft, DSt) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism .