What else would the Nazis have banned?

New Cleo Genesis

A couple of years ago I was planning a novel set in a world with a victorious Nazi Germany (very original...) with the main character being an American woman who travels to Axis Europe in 1951. On the Berlin main airport she sees a sign with a list of books that are prohibited in Nazi Germany. I think I included at least Simone de Beauvoir, George Orwell and Ayn Rand on the list, along with people whose books actually had such a ban, such as Stefan Zweig and Thomas Mann.

This minor detail happened to pop into my mind again today and I decided to present it here. Would the Nazis ban, say, Robert Heinlein? Isaac Asimov? C.S. Lewis?
 
shiftygiant

shiftygiant

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I imagine that apply for a visa to travel to America, she would probobly end up getting a list of banned items. I don't think (though I could be wrong!) they would say it loud and proud what is banned.

But to answer your question, anything by a Jewish and/or Communist/Socialist/Leftist author would be banned. Also worth checking their black list of individuals that were to be killed in Britain.
 

BeardedHoplite

Perhaps smoking could be banned in public places. Your character could lament she needs to go to a few scattered smoking areas to light up.
 

New Cleo Genesis

shiftygiant said:
I imagine that apply for a visa to travel to America, she would probobly end up getting a list of banned items. I don't think (though I could be wrong!) they would say it loud and proud what is banned.

But to answer your question, anything by a Jewish and/or Communist/Socialist/Leftist author would be banned. Also worth checking their black list of individuals that were to be killed in Britain.
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Hm, figure you might be right... and yeah, that list of individuals I should probably check out (again).

BeardedHoplite said:
Perhaps smoking could be banned in public places. Your character could lament she needs to go to a few scattered smoking areas to light up.
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Not quite what I was looking for, but considering that she's a chain smoker why not :biggrin:
 

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New Cleo Genesis said:
A couple of years ago I was planning a novel set in a world with a victorious Nazi Germany (very original...) with the main character being an American woman who travels to Axis Europe in 1951. On the Berlin main airport she sees a sign with a list of books that are prohibited in Nazi Germany. I think I included at least Simone de Beauvoir, George Orwell and Ayn Rand on the list, along with people whose books actually had such a ban, such as Stefan Zweig and Thomas Mann.

This minor detail happened to pop into my mind again today and I decided to present it here. Would the Nazis ban, say, Robert Heinlein? Isaac Asimov? C.S. Lewis?
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Asimov would almost certainly be banned since he was a Jew (never mind what his religious beliefs were).
 
Miss Teri

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Given Tolkien had criticized the Nazi regime, when the Hobbit was published in German, Lord of the Rings would probably be banned as well.
 
shiftygiant

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Mr.E said:
Given Tolkien had criticized the Nazi regime, when the Hobbit was published in German, Lord of the Rings would probably be banned as well.
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That or it's 'Nazified'.

Actually that would be an interesting thing to see; some Nazi higher-ups, not wanting their favorite foreign books to be banned because of ideologies, have a team 'Nazify' them for the populous.
 
shiftygiant

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Given how the Nazi's treated Jazz, there would be a repression of actual Jazz music, and a support of artificial, state produced Jazz (removed of the 'degenerative' quality that the Nazi's hotly opposed); I imagine the same would be said for any rock music that emerges.
 

Whitewings

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They also banned swing music and swing dancing. This became a plot point in of all places, an episode of Jem and the Holograms. You can find the sequence here, starting at minute 11.
 
Sasalele

Sasalele

New Cleo Genesis said:
Goebbels claims in his diary that he also liked Mickey Mouse. And yes, I could certainly see stuff like Cinderella showing to rave audiences in Germany.
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Don't forget Early Disney was based off GERMAN fairy tales, go ahead and try to name a major Disney movie before 1945 that wasn't based off a German fairy tale. (excluding Dumbo)
 
Michel Van

Michel Van

There was the Herrmanns „Schwarze Liste“
a list of 137 book that had to be destroy because there were "threat" to Nazi Society

Literature like Thomas Man who criticize the german authorities
History book with to tend to pacifistic, or look into Jewish or Russian history
All Artbooks of artist who are consider "Entartet"
Politic and political science like Marx & Engels entire work about Communism
Religion, Philosophy, education like Sigmund Freud entire work

Next to that Hitler wanted to ban also
Tabaco use, alcohol and eating of meat
i guess in first tow the NSDAP would succeed but not with third.
 

riggerrob

Ban rock music?
Hah!
Germans are so good at heavy metal music, speed metal, thrash metal, etc.
"Du hast kein lust ..." sounds lame it any other language.
 
Gukpard

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Whitewings said:
They also banned swing music and swing dancing. This became a plot point in of all places, an episode of Jem and the Holograms. You can find the sequence here, starting at minute 11.
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Do you have any source? I am a great fan of swing, and I know many german swing songs from the late 30s to late 40s, like this one
 

Kerney

Other than Ayn Rand being a Russian, wouldn't her philosophies and empathisis on might makes right go well with Fascism?
 
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