European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                An act hat shocked he world German students of the University of Berlin gather in the Square before the University buildings after a torchlight Parade on the night of May to Burn the books of some of Germany greatest denounced As not fit to be read by Good aryans because their authors were jews or socialists or simply because they were this coming As it did in the Early Days of the Hitler did More to crystallize world intellectual opinion in opposition to the nazis than anything that preceded Many of the books destroyed and banned by the nazis once again Are to be found on the shelves in literature rises from the ashes the spacious Square before the stately Berlin just off Unter Den Linden in the heart of the was a strange place for a but this was a strange charred scraps of paper swirled up Ward into the Spring the flames grew in intensity As brow uniformed attendants stoked the pyre with a rare fuel books were the books which propaganda minister Joseph go Tabels had branded As filth and by Thomas Mann and Albert Sig Mund Freud and Karl Heinrich Heine and Stefan the Date was May in great cities and University towns throughout Germany similar bonfires were the burning of the books had these bonfires were the Symbol of a flame which was to singe All Europe before it was finally new 17 years nazism has been extinguished for five what has happened to the burned and banned to orcs did the bonfires consume More than Mere or did the spirit be Hind the books survive How if of the banned books have reappeared in German bookstores in five of peace the in is that Many of the books Are and More Are reap 3earing All the but postwar political and economic difficulties have dampened the victorious return of 1he banned books from exile and made their Triumph something less this was revealed in a Survey by researchers at the University of Frank Furt working with a selected list of he More outstanding of the banned authors and heir they checked postwar printings in both the East and West zones Here is the Box score of the 126 authors 33 still fave not reappeared since the the unpublished Art Freud and 17 years after the nazi works of Many banned authors Are once More available by Harold staff writer Erika the daughter of Thomas a total of 567 books by the 93 republished authors have been printed in the East or or have been printed abroad in German and Are now on Sale in the West zones have published an even 300 of these while the East zone has printed foreign editions available in Germany number the apparent discrepancy rises from the fact that some books have been reprinted in both East and West or both in Germany and a study of the Type of books re pub a croup of students and Young nazi storm photographed Bihe he which consumed the Best German in the Berlin Book Bummie listed and their place of publication often suggests a crazy quilt More than a Clear Cut but certain trends stand one of the most obvious is that the Sharp political cleavage Between East and West Germany is mirrored in the books published in the two some such lion Feucht Arnold Zweig and Willi have been republished Only in the East other them Artnur Franz Kafka and Stefan have reappeared exclusively in the West in Many reasons for the pattern of publication Are a Stalwart on East zone publishing is reported to be president of the com munis dominated Kultur bund culture league in Arnold author of the Case of sergeant is said to be the president of the East German Academy of on the other Koestler Lack of popularity in the East zone is obvious to anyone a who has read darkness at noon or the Yogi and the his books offer some of the most oiling commentaries Ever written on the fallacies of another writer published Only in the West zones is Erich famous in the As the author of Emil and the which is widely used As a textbook in German his satirical humor and cultured criticisms Don t jibe at All with Eastern ideas on what Litera Ture should neither do the books of such leading German Catholic writers As Gertrude von be Elisabeth Langwasser and wer Ner All Are published Only in West the West zones also provide the some German outlet for the writings of Al Brecht Max Brod and Egon is the son of continued Page