updated to June 09, 2022 12:58 · Reading: Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Döblin, Albert Einstein, Stefan Zweig, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway were some of the authors whose works became grass of the flames during the spring of 1933 in Germany. Earlier that year, Adolf Hitler had risen to power and soon put to work every tool of control and enforcement at his disposal. Like in many other dictatorships in history, Hitler applied his restrictive policies also to the world of culture. One of the first steps was to draw up a list of writers banned by...