The Greatest Campaign of Book Destruction in all of History

...In 1989, when the publication of the German book trade ("Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel", Frankfurt) devoted several issues to "the history of book censorship", the account given was broken off in May 1945 and resumed with the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, glossing over the intervening years with the sweeping comment that "another enormous control apparatus came onto the scene" after the war. But no details were given.

Yet it would not have been difficult to do so [provide details]. Drawing on a September 15, 1945 order given by the Supreme Chief of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany, the victorious powers issued Control Council "Ordinance No. 4" only a few months later, on May 13, 1946, "regarding the confiscation of literature and works of National Socialist and militaristic character". The German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone cooperated with the Office for the Review of Publications to release, via the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig, lists of literature to be proscribed, which also found official use in the western occupation zones.

The first such list from 1946 was followed by three supplements, totaling 34,645 book titles...Beyond that, a comprehensive ban without individual title listing was applied to all school textbooks from 1933 to 1945.

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