Books banned in Germany
On 10 May 1933 students burned books in Berlin and university towns across Germany, targeting Jewish, pacifist, left-wing and other authors the Nazi regime called un-German. See our guide to banned books in Germany for what is restricted today.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque's novel of German soldiers in the trenches of the First World War.
Why it was banned: Burned in the Nazi book burnings of May 1933 and banned in Germany, which later stripped Remarque of his citizenship.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin's novel of an ex-convict trying to go straight in the streets of 1920s Berlin.
Why it was banned: Burned in the Nazi book burnings of 1933; Döblin, who was Jewish, had already left Germany.
Fabian
Kästner's novel of an unemployed advertising copywriter adrift in late-Weimar Berlin.
Why it was banned: Burned in the Nazi book burnings of May 1933; Kästner watched his own books burn in Berlin.
Mein Kampf
Hitler's autobiography and political manifesto, written partly in Landsberg prison after the failed 1923 Munich putsch, setting out the antisemitic and expansionist ideology of National Socialism.
Why it was banned: After 1945 the state of Bavaria, which held the copyright, refused to allow it to be reprinted in Germany; when the copyright expired at the end of 2015, the Institute for Contemporary History published an annotated critical edition in 2016. Its distribution is prohibited in Austria under the 1947 Prohibition Act, and Russia added it to its federal list of extremist materials in 2010.