NAZIS BAN THRILLER.
BERLIN, June 12. After a year's work in the "Reich's Writing Board, ', the. Ministry of Propaganda is able to announce tliqt the German equivalent of the "penny dreadful" has vanished from the scene altogether. Owing to the active co-operation of publishers-those comparatively harmless but very lurid stories of crime and passion .that used to be delivered ill weekly numbers at the back doors have made way for new editions, also hawked in pennyworths, of well-known books of considerably higher standard.
Authors of note still living have begun to eater for tlie same simple-minded public. According to official information. the suggestions made by the institution which advises tlie non-literary on its reading matter, and advocates six books every month, has proved highly successful.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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125NAZIS BAN THRILLER. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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