Goebbels speaking at a political rally against the Lausanne Conference (1932) The catalogue went back far enough to include literature from Heine and Marx to Kafka. ranged from Bebel, Bernstein, Preuss, and Rathenau through Einstein, Freud, Brecht, Brod, Döblin, Kaiser, the Mann brothers, Zweig, Plievier, Ossietzky, Remarque, Schnitzler, and Tucholsky, to Barlach, Bergengruen, Broch, Hoffmannsthal, Kästner, Kasack, Kesten, Kraus, Lasker-Schüler, Unruh, Werfel, Zuckmayer, and Hesse. He exclusion of "Left", democratic, and Jewish literature took precedence over everything else. According to historian Karl Dietrich Bracher: On April 8, 1933, the Main Office for Press and Propaganda of the German Student Union (DSt) proclaimed a nationwide "Action against the Un-German Spirit", which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ("Säuberung") by fire. 4 Allied censorship during de-Nazification.3.2 American Library of Nazi Banned Books.1.3 Cultural genocide in occupied territories.
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