Book burning

witness · Post by **witness** » 06 Nov 2002 20:11

On May 10 1933 Nazis set up the huge bonfires burning up books which they deemed not to be suitable for the Germans to read.
There were many authors who were in the Nazi 'black' lists.
Among them Jack London,Ernest Hemingway Sigmund Freud and others.
Does anybody have any more or less complete lists of the books which were disapproved and consequently burned by the Nazis ?
Thanks.
P.S.I specifically place my question in this section because I consider book burning to be a Crime..

Hans · Post by **Hans** » 06 Nov 2002 20:50

Hi witness!

Adler, Alfred
Adler, Max
Auernheimer, Raoul
Bauer, Otto
Baum, Vicki
Becher, Johannes R.
Beer-Hofmann, Richard
Benjamin, Walter
Berendsohn, Walter
Bloch, Ernst
Braun, Felix
Braunthal, Josef
Brecht, Bertolt
Bredel, Willi
Broch, Hermann
Bruckner, Ferdinand
Dos Passos, John
Edschmid, Kasimir
Einstein, Albert
Feuchtwanger, Lion
Fleisser, Marie Luise
Foerster, Friedrich Wilhelm
Frank, Leonhard
Freud, Anna
Freud, Sigmund
Friedell, Egon
Friedländer, Salomo
Gide, Andre
Graf, Oskar Maria
Grosz, Georges
Hasek, Jaroslaw
Horvath, Ödön von
Jahnn, Hans Henny
Jellinek, Georg
Kästner, Erich
Kafka, Franz
Kaiser, Georg
Kaleko, Mascha
Kantorowicz, Alfred
Kautsky, Karl
Kelsen, Hans
Kerr, Alfred
Keun, Irmgard
Kesten, Hermann
Klabund
Koenig, Alma J.
Kolb, Annette
Kracauer, Siegfried
Kraus, Karl
Lasker-Schüler, Else
Löwenstein, Prinz Hubemus zu
Lothar, Ernst
Ludwig, Emil
Luxemburg, Rosa
Malraux, Andre
Mann, Heinrich
Mann, Klaus
Mann, Thomas
Marchwitza, Hans
Marcuse, Ludwig
Marx, Karl
Mehring, Walter
Meyrink, Gustav
Mühsam, Erich
Musil, Robert
Neumann, Alfred
Neumann, Robert
Ossietzky, Carl von
Ottwalt, Ernst
Pauli, Hertha
Pinthus, Kurt
Popp, Adelheid
Reck-Malleczewen, Fritz
Reger, Erik
Regler, Gustav
Reich, Wilhelm
Remarque, Erich Maria
Renner, Karl
Ringelnatz, Joachim
Ross, Colin
Roth, Joseph
Sachs, Nelly
Saiten, Felix
Schirokauer, Arno
Schnitzler, Arthur
Seghers, Anna
Serner, Walter
Silone, Ignazio
Speyer, Wilhelm
Steiner, Rudolf
Sternheim, Carl
Thomas, Adrienne
Toller, Ernst
Torberg, Friedrich
Traven, Bruno
Trotzki, Leo
Tschuppik, Karl
Tucholsky, Kurt
Wassermann, Jakob
Wedel, Franz
Wolf, Friedrich
Zuckmayer, Carl
Zweig, Arnold
Zweig, Stefan

Source: http://www.cras-legam.de/HHZ12BVA.htm

witness · Post by **witness** » 06 Nov 2002 21:17

Thank you Hans.
I understand these are only the German authors indicated in the list.
P.S. Also Austrian ones such as Zweig and Hashek

Dan · Post by **Dan** » 06 Nov 2002 21:28

Why was London banned?

viriato · Post by **viriato** » 06 Nov 2002 21:30

To witness:

John dos Passos is from the USA.

Caldric · Post by **Caldric** » 06 Nov 2002 21:36

They BURNED JACK LONDON???!! What bastards! What great reading, Call of the Wild etc.

witness · Post by **witness** » 06 Nov 2002 21:37

Hi viriato !
I don't see him in the list provided by Hans.

Hi Dan
Have you read "Sea -wolf " by London ?
Very interesting novel where London critisize the Superman (Master race ?) type of thinking.

Caldric · Post by **Caldric** » 06 Nov 2002 21:39

witness wrote:Hi viriato !
I don't see him in the list provided by Hans.

Hi Dan
Have you read "Sea -wolf " by London ?
Very interesting novel where London critisize the Superman (Master race ?) type of thinking.

I got the wonderful collection by London, all leather bound and the nice gold edged pages. Seawolf was a great read, the weakling and intellectual thrown into the face of the strong and brutal personality and physical strength. Of course he overcomes and wins the lady.

Hans · Post by **Hans** » 06 Nov 2002 21:47

Jack London's books "Zwangsjacke" (1906) and "Eiserne Ferse" (1906) (english names?) were burned by the Nazis.

witness · Post by **witness** » 06 Nov 2002 21:48

Yes.
Besides London was very much in favour of individualism ,of the personal
power and against any blind obedience to the sate characteristic to the Fascits regimes.
Also he was flirting with some Red ideas as far as I remember .
It can be traced in "Martin Iden ".

witness · Post by **witness** » 06 Nov 2002 21:51

One of them the"The Iron Heel" ?

Christian Ankerstjerne · Post by **Christian Ankerstjerne** » 06 Nov 2002 21:59

witness wrote:Thank you Hans.
I understand these are only the German authors indicated in the list.
P.S. Also Austrian ones such as Zweig and Hashek

I don't consider Trotzki german

Christian

witness · Post by **witness** » 06 Nov 2002 22:03

Yes I missed him somehow..

But still this list is made up predominantly of the German or Austrian authors.

viriato · Post by **viriato** » 06 Nov 2002 22:03

Witness, see John dos Passos in the list between Ferdinand Bruckner and Kasimir Edschmied.

witness · Post by **witness** » 06 Nov 2002 22:05

O.K. I see him now.