The German girls in our story would have been deprived of
some reading material. Authors who were banned include such well-known figures
as Bertolt Brecht, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Friedrich Engels, Ernest
Hemmingway, Erich Kästner, Franz Kafka, Helen Keller, André Malraux, Heinrich
Mann, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx Rudolf Steiner, and H.G. Wells amongst many, many
others.
Librarians were given a list of criteria for deciding which
books should be destroyed:
