title: List of authors banned in Nazi Germany
text: # List of authors banned in Nazi Germany
  
  This list includes both authors whose entire literary production was officially banned in Nazi Germany and authors who were only partially banned. These authors are from the prohibitions lists in Nazi Germany and come from the following lists and others:
  
  * List of damaging and undesirable writing, Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums, December 31, 1938
  * Jahreslisten 1939-1941. Unchanged new printing of the Leipzig edition, 1938-1941, Vaduz 1979
  
  The official list was published by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. 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. These book bans compose a part of the history of censorship and a subset of the list of banned books.
  
  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.
  
  ## A
  
  * Alfred Adler
  * Hermann Adler
  * Max Adler
  * Raoul Auernheimer
  
  ## B
  
  * Otto Bauer
  * Vicki Baum
  * Johannes R. Becher
  * Richard Beer-Hofmann
  * Hilaire Belloc
  * Walter Benjamin
  * Robert Hugh Benson
  * Walter A. Berendsohn
  * Ernst Bloch
  * Felix Braun
  * Bertolt Brecht
  * Willi Bredel
  * Hermann Broch
  * Ferdinand Bruckner
  * Edmund Burke
  
  ## C
  
  * G. K. Chesterton
  
  ## D
  
  * Dorothy Day
  * Ludwig Dexheimer
  * Alfred Döblin
  * John Dos Passos
  
  ## E
  
  * Albert Ehrenstein
  * Albert Einstein
  * Carl Einstein
  * Friedrich Engels
  * Erasmus
  
  ## F
  
  * Lion Feuchtwanger
  * F. Scott Fitzgerald
  * Marieluise Fleißer
  * Leonhard Frank
  * Anna Freud
  * Sigmund Freud
  * Egon Friedell
  
  ## G
  
  * Edward Gibbon
  * André Gide
  * Ernst Glaeser
  * William Godwin
  * Emma Goldman
  * Claire Goll
  * Oskar Maria Graf
  * George Grosz
  
  ## H
  
  * Ernst Haeckel
  * Radclyffe Hall
  * Jaroslav Hašek
  * Walter Hasenclever
  * Raoul Hausmann
  * Heinrich Heine
  * Ernest Hemingway
  * Theodor Herzl
  * Hermann Hesse
  * Magnus Hirschfeld
  * J. Edgar Hoover
  * Jakob van Hoddis
  * Ödön von Horvath
  * Karl Hubbuch
  * David Hume
  * Aldous Huxley
  
  ## I
  
  * Vera Inber
  
  ## J
  
  * Hans Henny Jahnn
  * Thomas Jefferson
  * Georg Jellinek
  
  ## K
  
  * Franz Kafka
  * Georg Kaiser
  * Mascha Kaleko
  * Hermann Kantorowicz
  * Erich Kästner
  * Karl Kautsky
  * Hans Kelsen
  * Alfred Kerr
  * Irmgard Keun
  * John Maynard Keynes
  * Klabund
  * Heinrich Kley
  * Annette Kolb
  * Paul Kornfeld
  * Siegfried Kracauer
  * Karl Kraus
  * Peter Kropotkin
  * Adam Kuckhoff
  
  ## L
  
  * Else Lasker-Schüler
  * Vladimir Lenin
  * C. S. Lewis
  * Karl Liebknecht
  * Jack London
  * Ernst Lothar
  * Emil Ludwig
  * Rosa Luxemburg
  
  ## M
  
  * Joseph de Maistre
  * André Malraux
  * Heinrich Mann
  * Klaus Mann
  * Thomas Mann
  * Mao Zedong
  * Hans Marchwitza
  * Ludwig Marcuse
  * Karl Marx
  * Vladimir Mayakovsky
  * Walter Mehring
  * Thomas Merton
  * E.C. Albrecht Meyenberg
  * Gustav Meyrink
  * Ludwig von Mises
  * Thomas More
  * Erich Mühsam
  * Robert Musil
  
  ## N
  
  * Alfred Neumann
  * Robert Neumann
  * John Henry Newman
  
  ## O
  
  * Flannery O'Connor
  * George Orwell
  * Carl von Ossietzky
  * Ouida
  
  ## P
  
  * Thomas Paine
  * Hertha Pauli
  * Adelheid Popp
  * Marcel Proust
  
  ## R
  
  * Fritz Reck-Malleczewen
  * Gustav Regler
  * Wilhelm Reich
  * Erich Maria Remarque
  * Karl Renner
  * Joachim Ringelnatz
  * Joseph Roth
  * Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
  ## S
  
  * Nelly Sachs
  * Felix Salten
  * Rahel Sanzara
  * Arthur Schnitzler
  * Alvin Schwartz
  * Anna Seghers
  * Walter Serner
  * Fulton Sheen
  * Ignazio Silone
  * Adam Smith
  * Joseph Stalin
  * Rudolf Steiner
  * Carl Sternheim
  
  ## T
  
  * J.R.R. Tolkien
  * Ernst Toller
  * Friedrich Torberg
  * B. Traven
  * Leon Trotsky
  * Kurt Tucholsky
  * Mark Twain
  
  ## V
  
  * Voltaire
  
  ## W
  
  * Jakob Wassermann
  * Armin T. Wegner
  * Simone Weil
  * H. G. Wells
  * Franz Werfel
  * Oscar Wilde
  * Eugen Gottlob Winkler
  * Friedrich Wolf
  
  ## Z
  
  * Carl Zuckmayer
  * Arnold Zweig
  * Stefan Zweig
  