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This is the infamous Polunbi-Katalog, the so-called ‘bible’ of the German Central Police Bureau for Combating Obscene Pictures, Books and Advertisements (Deutsche ZentralPOLizeistelle zur Bekämpfung UNzüchtiger BIlder, Schriften und Inserate, or Polunbi) in 1920s Berlin.  The catalogue not only records what was confiscated, arranged alphabetically by title, but whether a book was withdrawn from circulation […]

‘While the rigid Censorship exercised by the Russian bureaucracy would make the publication of such facts as are herein described impossible in the place where they occurred, the jealous care with which individual freedom of thought, speech and action, the most cherished heritage of the English people, is guarded, encourages the author to hope, that […]