All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
By Erich Maria Remarque
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Poll: Watch a Nazis Banned Book
The sources for this poll are https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/101688.Books_Banned_by_Nazis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments
And
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_banned_in_Nazi_Germany
While book banning in schools and school libraries in the USA is a hot button issue today, I, not the IMDb as a whole, I personally think it doesn’t compare to the level where Hitler took it. He didn’t just ban books in school libraries and in schools, he banned them in all public libraries, arrested authors, confiscated books, burned books, and at first restricted sales in bookstores, and then out right banned sales and publication. That is real book banning. The worst part of it is that many titles on the Nazis banned list included many authors who weren’t German. But staying with German and Austrian-German authors and Jewish German authors first, and then going to non-German authors later, many films have been made from their works. Many were made outside of Germany during Hitler’s lifetime. But the most ironic twist of fate and poetic justice is that after World War 2 ended, Hitler’s own book, “Mein Kampf”, was banned in Germany until it fell into public domain.
Which of these film versions made from a Hitler banned book is your favorite?
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Make Your Choice
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Bambi (1942)
By Felix Salten -
Prevrashchenie (2002)
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka -
The Trial (1962)
By Franz Kafka -
Grand Hotel (1932)
By Vicki Baum -
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By Bertolt Brecht, Basically all his works. -
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien -
The Magic Mountain (1982)
Basically everything Thomas Mann wrote. -
Death in Venice (1971)
Thomas Mann -
The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)
By Jaroslav Hasek -
Amerika (1994)
Franz Kafka -
The Castle (1968)
Basically every title Franz Kafka wrote -
Mephisto (1981)
Klaus Mann -
On Trial (1954)
“Der Fall Maurizius” by Jakob Wassermann. Basically everything he wrote. -
Pastoral Symphony (1946)
Basically anything André Gide wrote before 1938. -
Ivanhoe (1952)
By Sir Walter Scott -
Oliver Twist (1948)
By Charles Dickens -
Ferdinand (2017)
“The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf. Disney did an 8 minute short while Hitler was still living! Ferdinand the Bull (1938). -
Zheleznaya pyata oligarkhii (1998)
Because of Jack London’s novel “The Iron Heel” , which this movie is based on, all of his novels were banned in Nazis Germany, including the next three. -
The Call of the Wild (2020)
Jack London -
White Fang (1991)
Jack London -
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Jack London -
The Time Machine (1960)
All of H. G. Wells’ works were banned! -
The War of the Worlds (1953)
H. G. Wells -
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Ernest Hemingway All of his works up until 1945 we’re banned too. -
Things to Come (1936)
“The Shape of Things to Come” by H.G. Wells -
The Great Gatsby (2013)
F. Scott Fitzgerald got banned too -
Swann in Love (1984)
I was looking for “Swann’s Way” but all of Marcel Proust got banned too. -
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
By Christa Winsloe -
Amok (1934)
By Stefan Zweig. There are other movies with the same title, but this is the one based on his novel. -
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Director Wes Anderson said he used 2 of Stefan Zweig’s novels to make this film. -
Emil and the Detectives (1931)
By Erich Kästner. And Disney made a version of this too. Emil and the Detectives (1964). He started to write “Lottie and Lisa” (also known as “Two Time Lottie”) during WW2 but the Nazis stopped him from finishing it. However he survived the war and finished it. It became Disney’s The Parent Trap (1961). -
The Golem (1967)
Gustav Meyrink. The silent masterpiece was inspired by his novel but differed greatly - The Golem (1920) -
The Invisible Man (1933)
H. G. Wells -
Martin Eden (2019)
Jack London
