Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany

Contents: Part 1. The Emergence of Censorship. Book control in the Weimar Republic The book burning of 1933 Part 2. The Agencies of Control. The Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda The Reich Chamber of Literature The Gestapo and SD The Party Commission for the Protection of National Socialist Literature Alfred Rosenberg: Hitler's Plenipotentiary for ideological education Part 3. The Practice of Censorship. The reasons for banning books Jewish books The purge of libraries Wartime censorship The battle for turf Part 4. The Impact of Censorship. The inner emigration