List of authors banned in Nazi Germany
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (July 2012) |
 | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (March 2019) |
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 (Ministry of Public Enlightenment and 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]
Most serious efforts were dedicated to the writers of ethnic Jewish descent: In 1938, a team tasked by Alfred Rosenberg produced the Verzeichnis jüdischer Autoren (Register of Jewish Authors) that listed some 11,000 Jewish writers while in 1941 the Germans began the Bibliographie der jüdischen Autoren in deutscher Sprache: 1901–1940 (Bibliography of Jewish Authors in the German Language), initially supposed to contain some 90,000 names but ending up with 28,000 in March 1944 as the project was stopped due to a lack of personnel.[3]
A
[edit]B
[edit]
C
[edit]D
[edit]- Charles Darwin
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Dorothy Day
- René Descartes
- Ludwig Dexheimer[4]
- Alfred Döblin
- John Dos Passos
- Arthur Conan Doyle
E
[edit].png)
F
[edit].jpg)
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Marieluise Fleißer
- Leonhard Frank
- Benjamin Franklin
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- Egon Friedell
G
[edit]- Galileo
- Edward Gibbon
- André Gide
- Ernst Glaeser
- William Godwin
- Emma Goldman
- Claire Goll
- Oskar Maria Graf
- Karl Grünberg
- George Grosz
H
[edit]
I
[edit]J
[edit]K
[edit]
L
[edit]
M
[edit]
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Joseph de Maistre
- André Malraux
- Heinrich Mann
- Klaus Mann
- Thomas Mann[5]
- Mao Zedong
- Hans Marchwitza
- Ludwig Marcuse
- Karl Marx
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Walter Mehring
- H. L. Mencken
- Thomas Merton
- E.C. Albrecht Meyenberg
- Gustav Meyrink
- Ludwig von Mises
- Montesquieu
- Thomas More
- Erich Mühsam
- Robert Musil
- Charjac Moses
- Taryn Moses
N
[edit]O
[edit]
P
[edit]
R
[edit]
S
[edit]
T
[edit]V
[edit]W
[edit]
- Jakob Wassermann
- Armin T. Wegner
- Simone Weil
- H. G. Wells
- Franz Werfel
- Oscar Wilde
- Eugen Gottlob Winkler
- Friedrich Wolf
Z
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Guenter, Lewy (2016). Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany. New York (N.Y.): Oxford University press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-19-027528-0.
- ^ Online-Veröffentlichung der Liste der von den Nationalsozialisten verbotenen Schriften.
- ^ "Books prohibited by the Nazi Party: A selection of works by Thomas Mann, whose writings were banned by the Nazis". The Wiener Holocaust Library. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
External links
[edit]- 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