[4] In the era of National Socialism, Goldmann also published increasingly popular science books on environmental and economic issues; the high-circulation authors of that period included, for example, Anton Zischka, Walter Pahl, Paul August Schmitz and Ferdinand Fried.

[5] Although the publishing house at the Leipzig Rossmarkt was completely destroyed in an air raid in December 1943, the production could be maintained until the war ended.

[6] After the war, Wilhelm Goldmann was arrested in February 1946 by the Soviet secret police on charges of "fascist book", and detained for four years without a trial in the special camps Mühlberg and Buchenwald.

[8] He devoted himself increasingly to the production of cheaper paperbacks: In 1952 the first Goldmann pocket thrillers were published (also called Red Series because of their prevailing cover color); a year later the yellow Goldmann paperbacks (yellow line) started, with classics of world literature and contemporary fiction that shaped the profile of the publisher for nearly three decades.

Other well-known recurring authors were Louis Weinert-Wilton, Earl Derr Biggers, John Creasey, Ellery Queen, Dick Francis and Bill Knox.

In addition, in the Yellow series demanding literature also appeared from Stefan Heym, Walter Kempowski, Manfred Bieler and Ingeborg Drewitz.

[16] Known authors include Bill Bryson, Joy Fielding, Elizabeth George, Wladimir Kaminer, Richard David Precht, Lucinda Riley, Michael Robotham and Donna Tartt.

Recently Goldmann Publishing became more well known, with the Fifty Shades trilogy by British author E. L. James,[17] in Germany alone, more than seven million copies were sold until spring 2013.

[23] The publisher labeled several authors, including Liselotte Appel, Helmut Grömmer, Irene Rodrian, Max Ulrich, Herma Costa and Louis Weinert-Wilton.