Hitler Censored Art - Luis

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/joseph-goebbels
Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), was one of
hitlers colleague who was responsible for the censorship of any form of art. Joseph other main
objective was to present Hitler to the public as a force of good. Goebbels forced all artists and
journalist to become unemployed, and did public book burning of non German literature.

Book Burning
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005852
The May 1933 book burning in Nazi Germany had a precedent in nineteenth century Germany.
The students, demonstrating for a unified Germany, at the time the country was a patchwork of
states, burned anti-national and reactionary texts and literature which the students viewed as
Un-German.

Authors and works

Among the authors whose books student leaders burned that night were well-known socialists
such as Bertolt Brecht and August Bebel; the founder of the concept of communism, Karl Marx;
critical bourgeois writers like the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler; and corrupting
foreign influences, among them American author Ernest Hemingway.

American authors Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, and Helen Keller were on the Nazi blacklist
because their belief in social justice encouraged to champion the disabled, pacifism, improved
conditions for industrial workers, and women's voting rights.

Jewish authors numbered among the writers whose works were burned, among them some of
the most famous contemporary writers of the day, such as Franz Werfel, Max Brod, and Stefan
Zweig.

The act of book burnings, also called Action against the Un-German Spirit were success in 34
university towns across Germany and it gained widespread newspaper coverage. Some cities,
mainly Berlin, broadcasted the speeches, songs, and chants to many German listeners.

The promotion of "Aryan" culture and the suppression of other forms of artistic production was yet
another Nazi effort to "purify" Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxzIhUWguAk
Stock Footage of the most infamous book burning on May 10, 1933, and speech with Joseph
Goebbels
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/haunting-world-war-ii-nazi-propaganda-
posters-gallery-1.2838285?pmSlide=1.2838275
(Hans Schweitzer), artist; 1943. Poster courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division, Washington, DC.
Description: He is to blame for the war
Nazis wanted to created hatred for German Jews by changing the idea of them
being ordinary people into an internal enemy who encourage violence and betrayed
Germany.
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/story2.htm
The poisonous mushroom was a German anti semitic childrens book created by
Der Stuermer-Verlag. The link above is the full story for those who are curious on
reading it. Its a very short story.