US EditionGerman Court Slaps Down Library ‘Warning Labels’ on ‘Controversial Books’
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Can a city library provide information on works in which the moon landing or the atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima is contested? An author went against this practice to the Oberlandesgericht. Now a verdict provides clarity.
In 2024 the library in Münster had provided so-called classification instructions in two book copies: It was a »work with controversial content«. Now a court demands that the assessment be removed.
The Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia has prohibited the Münster City Library from placing "warnings" in books. The library had examined books or had them examined for their content. The result was warnings that library patrons then found in the works in question. The entire thing was sold as a "classification notice" and read as follows: This is a work with controversial content. This copy is made available due to freedom of…
5-STAR REVIEW: THE BANNED BOOKS OF BERLIN By Daisy Woods
Publication Date: April 10, 2025 Another unforgettable story, tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris and The Royal Librarian Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number and Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya. She can only watch on, horrified, as her beloved city falls to fascism – and the usually la…
In Münster, the Stadtbücherei provides a book from the Kopp publishing house with the warning "controversial". Now a court intervenes – and demands the removal of the sticker. What is the reason? This post author defends himself Stadtbücherei must remove warnings from Kopp-Buch was published on JUNGE FREIHEIT.
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