Germany
Germany's most dramatic episode of book censorship came during the Nazi era, when the regime organised public burnings of thousands of titles in May 1933, targeting works by Jewish, communist, and politically undesirable authors. Today, post-war Germany has strong constitutional protections for free expression, though certain categories of content — such as Nazi propaganda and Holocaust denial — remain restricted by law. Modern Germany ranks consistently high in global press freedom indices.
Banned books
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. These young men become enthusiastic soldiers, but their world of duty, culture, and progress breaks into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the hatred that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another... if only he can come out of the war aliv
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
Book of Songs
Heinrich Heine
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
Did Six Million Really Die?
Richard Verrall
Government / national · 1979
Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait
Magnus Hirschfeld
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
Masses Man
Ernst Toller
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Government / national · 1945 · lifted
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
Round Heads and Pointed Heads
Bertolt Brecht
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
Sexual Ethics
Auguste Forel
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to world wide communism. Full text available at Project Gutenberg too: http://www.gutenberg.org/file
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
The Iron Heel
Jack London
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Unknown
Government / national · 1945
The Sleepless World
Erich Kästner
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
The Sleepwalkers
Stefan Zweig
One week after she starts her summer job on Fear Street with old Mrs. Cottler, Mayra Barnes begins to sleepwalk, always waking up outdoors in the middle of the night never knowing where she is! Things take a disturbing turn when Mayra discovers Mrs. Cottler may be a witch. Is the old woman casting a spell on Mayra to make her sleepwalk? More horrifying, Mayra is being followed by a menacing stranger who seems to recognize her. But she's never seen him in her life! Mayra's sleepwalking is leading
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf
A gentle bull who likes to sit quietly and smell flowers is entered in a bullfight.
Government / national · 1936 · lifted
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
The Turner Diaries
William Luther Pierce
Government / national · 1979
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
Government / national · 1933 · lifted
Three Comrades
Erich Maria Remarque
Government / national · 1933 · lifted