English Translation

155 2.3.3.2 Culture The occupation also affected culture. As early as March 30, 1939, the Prague Police Directorate ordered all booksellers and publishers to immediately exclude from their sale books the content of communist, Marxist, Germany hostile, especially so called. Emigrant literature... (418) On 10,000 banned titles lists of defective and undesirable literature, issued by the Censor's authority of the Press Supervisory Services (UTDS) were gradually expanded to include authors of countries with whom the Third Reich entered into a state of war (for example, William Shakespeare). It was forbidden to publish the works of 97 Czech writers and artists, including Petr Bezruč, Josef Čapek, Karel Čapek, František Halas, Josefa Hora, Joseph Lada, Vítězslav Nezval or Jaroslav Seifert. The last complete list of banned books from 1944 contained more than 10,000 titles. All publications of socialist, anti-Habsburg, legionary, sokolian, scout, military, books about the USSR, Edvard Beneš and seven titles about T.G. Masaryk were excluded from the sale. As regards legal Czech protectorate periodicals, i.e. newspapers, magazines and official journals, a total of 2 218 were published on 16 March 1939. By 5 May 1945, the issue of 1 887 titles, ie. full 85 percent, was discontinued. Since 1941 the scope of the leaves, their cargo and tightened conditions for the issue of periodicals was limited. (419) The film under the supervision of the protector Special attention was paid by the Nazis to the film art, which they considered to be the most effective means of influencing the mood of the population and propaganda. Czech Moravian Film Headquarters (ČFÚ), as a public law corporation, which was supposed to "unite the film industry" in the Protectorate.