Word: verboten
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...French civilian, H.D.. tells how the last issue of TIME to reach him somehow got through to occupied France, "where the German officers quartered in my home read it with great interest but never figured out that it was verboten literature; the Hun is as stupid as ever." Still another Frenchman writes that "during the Battle of Normandy bombardments and air fights raged all around my house, and it was a miracle that we were saved. It was a great sight when the Americans came." An old lady writes: "I was evacuated and found myself on the highways with...
...camp Nazis tried to censor books in the prison libraries. They put books they did not want their prison mates to read on separate shelves and passed the word that these shelves were verboten. Army officials soon put a stop to that. But positive Nazi propaganda is hard to curb. Because of the scarcity of German-speaking guards, the Nazis can proselyte openly. In one so-called art class, conducted by a Nazi, students diligently repeated lessons right out of the Nazi book: the statue of a racially impure woman is unschön (ugly); art should be Zweck-Kunst...
...days after Pearl Harbor, Larry Whipp was sitting in the dark in his study listening to a verboten BBC broadcast when the Gestapo came. He was expecting them. He had his bags and a pianist's finger-exercising machine packed and waiting. Sadly he turned his beloved grey Gothic cathedral over to the German clergy to make into a Wehrmachtskirche. During the ten months of his imprisonment, he lived with comparative comfort in the American section of the Compiègne internment camp...
...Most of the interest in the recently banned books," he commented, "has been stimulated because they are 'verboten,' not because of any lust which they might promote. So far as youth is concerned, the test is a simple one: there are certain types of literature which on their face are revealed as lewd and disgusting productions. About these there can be no question. But these types are rarely found in bookstores, their distribution being handled largely by underworld characters...
...Germans had gone again and there was no fear-except that Paulette was terribly afraid of being late. For this morning the new French class began at the Town Hall, with a new teacher, Sister Elizabeth. When the Germans were there, everybody had to speak German. French was verboten. Now everybody must speak French. It was funny...