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268 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "Like every totalitarian regime, Nazi Germany tried to control intellectual freedom by censoring books. Between 1933 and 1945, the Hitler regime orchestrated a massive campaign to take control of all forms of communication. In 1933, there were 90 book burnings in 70 German cities. Indeed, Werner Schlegel, an official in the Ministry of Propaganda, called the book burnings 'a symbol of the revolution'. In later years, the regime used less violent means of domination. It pillaged bookstores and libraries and prosecuted uncooperative publishers and dissident authors. (The author) analyzes the various strategies that the Nazis employed to enact censorship and the government officials who led the attack on a free intellectual life, including Martin Bormann, Philipp Bouhler, Joseph Goebbels, and Alfred Rosenberg. The Propaganda Ministry played a leading role in the censorship campaign, supported by an array of organizations at both the state and local levels. Because of the many overlapping jurisdictions and organizations, censorship was disorderly and erratic. Beyond the implementation of censorship, Lewy describes the plight of authors, publishers, and bookstores who clashed with the Nazi regime. Some authors were imprisoned. Others, such as Gottfried Benn, Werner Bergengruen, Gerhart Hauptmann, Ernst Junger, Jochen Klepper, and Ernst Wiechert, became controversial 'inner emigrants' who chose to remain in Germany. Some of them criticized the Nazi regime through allegories and parables. Ultimately, Lewy paints a fascinating portrait of intellectual life under the Nazi dictatorship, detailing the dismal fate of those who were caught in the wheels of censorship." Book is Near Fine. Dust jacket has minor handling soiling.
Title: HARMFUL AND UNDESIRABLE: BOOK CENSORSHIP IN NAZI GERMANY.
Categories: Military - World War II, Books About Books,
Edition: Second Printing
Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 2016
ISBN Number: 0190275286
ISBN Number 13: 9780190275280
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Seller ID: 30399
Keywords: Censorship, Germany, 20th Century, Politics, Government, Intellectual Life, World War II, Second World War, Book Control, Publishing, Publishers, Authors, Weimar Republic, Book Burnings, Mid 20th Century, Third Reich, Gestapo, SD, National Socialist Party, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Ideology, Propaganda, Book Banning, jewish Books, Jews, Jewish Authors, Purges, Libraries, Wartime Censorship, Astrology, Anti-Semitism, Bookstores, Martin Bormann, Philipp Bouhler, Bertolt Brecht, Catholics, Concentration Camps, Department VIII, Eher, Lion Feuchtwanger, Gestapa, Joseph Goebbels, Karl Heinz Hederich, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Inner Emigration, Herhart Hauptmann, Hanns Johst, Jochen Klepper, Lending Libraries, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Marxism, National Chamber of Literature, Pacifist Books, Party Commission for the Protection of National Socialist Literature, PPK, Forbidden Books, Erich Maria Remarque, Bernhard Rust, Security Service, SD, Kurt Tucholsky, University Libraries, Heinz Wismann, Arnold Zweig, Stefan Sweig.,