Banned books
29th October 2012
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 The catalogue not only records what was confiscated, arranged alphabetically by title, but whether a book was withdrawn from circulation […]
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