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Banned and restricted books in Germany
3,644 titles have been banned or restricted in Germany, recorded across 3,645 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
3,644
Ban events
3,645
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
12
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buch der Lieder | Heinrich Heine | 1827 | 2 |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 | 1 |
| The Communist Manifesto | Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx | 1848 | 1 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1929 | 1 |
| The Story of Ferdinand | Munro Leaf | 1936 | 1 |
| The Iron Heel | Jack London | 1908 | 1 |
| The Sleepwalkers | Stefan Zweig | 1932 | 1 |
| Mother Courage and Her Children | Bertolt Brecht | 1941 | 1 |
| The Turner Diaries | William Luther Pierce | 1978 | 1 |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | 1925 | 1 |
| The Protocols of the Elders of Zion | — | 1903 | 1 |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 1838 | 1 |
| Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait | Magnus Hirschfeld | 1926 | 1 |
| The Sleepless World | Erich Kästner | 1932 | 1 |
| Book of Songs | Heinrich Heine | 1827 | 1 |
| Three Comrades | Erich Maria Remarque | 1936 | 1 |
| Sexual Ethics | Auguste Forel | 1908 | 1 |
| The World of Yesterday | Stefan Zweig | 1942 | 1 |
| Round Heads and Pointed Heads | Bertolt Brecht | — | 1 |
| Masses Man | Ernst Toller | 1921 | 1 |
| Did Six Million Really Die? | Richard Verrall | 1974 | 1 |
| Bread and Wine | Ignazio Silone | 1936 | 1 |
| Fontamara | Ignazio Silone | 1933 | 1 |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 1906 | 1 |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 1915 | 1 |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Döblin | 1929 | 1 |
| Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | 1927 | 1 |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 1859 | 1 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | 1 |
| The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | 1959 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 3,633
- Race / colonialism
- 12
- Immorality
- 4
- Sexual content
- 4
- Religious / blasphemy
- 2
- LGBTQ+ content
- 1
- Obscenity
- 1
By decade
1770s1
1780s1
1800s1
1840s3
1870s1
1900s1
1920s1
1930s3,629
1940s2
1950s2
1970s2
1990s1
Documented bans
A sample of 50 of 3,645 recorded events, most severe and most recent first. Each links to its source where available.
American Psycho1995
The Turner Diaries1979
Did Six Million Really Die?1979
The Tin Drum1959
Buch der Lieder1954
Mein Kampf1945
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion1945
Frauenleiden1938
Larissa1938
Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit1938
Gericht über Hugenberg1938
Priester der Liebe1938
Das Buch der NSDAP1938
Quartier an der Mosel1938
Drei Tage1938
Das Haus Cosinsky1938
Kampf dem Marxismus!?1938
Die Passion in 60 Bildern1938
Marschier oder krepier!1938
Die Ruten-Redoute in Frau Birkheims Tanzschule1938
Afrika weint1938
Fürst Widukind, der Sachsenführer1938
Das Erlöserkind1938
Proudhon und der Sozialismus1938
Knabe oder Mädchen nach Wunsch u. Wahl der Eltern1938
Das werdende Recht1938
Neue Bahnen1938
Harnröhrenleiden1938
Die Untersten1938
Die kommunistische Gesellschaft1938
Ein Kampf um Röhm1938
Stürme um Kap Marga1938
7 Tage, die Japan erschütterten1938
Pfingstnacht1938
Bagno1938
Die kommunistische Partei Chinas im Kampfe um die Befreiung des chines. Volkes1938
Die Sozialisierung der Wirtschaft durch die Genossenschaften1938
Wassily Kandinsky1938
W. J. Lenin1938
Dollfuss1938
Die Volkswirtschaft der UdSSR1938
Das Evangelium eines armen Sünders1938
Unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit1938
Proletarisches Spielbuch1938
Soziale Frage und Bodenverstaatlichung1938
Das Phantom im Nebel1938
Dokumente zu Friedmanns Kampf gegen die Tuberkulose1938
Die slowenische Volksgruppe in Kärnten1938
Fronterinnerungen eines Pferdes1938
Betriebsräte u. Arbeitsgerichtsgesetz1938
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