List of authors banned in Nazi Germany

Authors, living and dead, were placed on the list because of Jewish descent, or because of pacifist or communist and/or Freemasonic sympathies or suspicion thereof.

In May and June 1933, in the first year of the Nazi government, there were book burnings.

After World War II started, Germans created indexes of prohibited books in countries they occupied, of works in languages other than German.

For example, in occupied Poland, an index of 1,500 prohibited authors was created.

[2] Most serious efforts were dedicated to the writers of ethnic Jewish descent: In 1938, a team tasked by Alfred Rosenberg produced the Verzeichnis jüdischer Autoren (Register of Jewish Authors) that listed some 11,000 Jewish writers while in 1941 the Germans began the Bibliographie der jüdischen Autoren in deutscher Sprache: 1901–1940 (Bibliography of Jewish Authors in the German Language), initially supposed to contain some 90,000 names but ending up with 28,000 in March 1944 as the project was stopped due to a lack of personnel.