Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo (Sep 2016)

Libri prohibit: Government interference with book production and book collections during World War II as exemplified by the city of Nitra (Libri prohibiti: zásahy politiky do knižnej produkcie a knižničných fondov počas druhej svetovej vojny na príklade mesta Nitra)

  • Miroslav Palárik,
  • Alena Mikulášová

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 117 – 137

Abstract

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In post-1939 Slovakia, the government adopted several measures to exercise undue control over its citizens and influence their views and opinions. During World War II, a number of censorship decrees were issues which sought to control what information was made public in the press, on the radio and in movies and other artistic productions. This paper exa-mines book censorship during that period, analyzing the role of specific institutions which were tasked with excising the undesirable literary production, describing the process of „cleaning up“ libraries and looking at what works and which authors were considered unacceptable by the ruling regime, focusing on the city of Nitra.

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