American occupation authorities suppressed critical German publications and even Faulkner novels

Evidence

If one criticized capitalism, one would have no chance of gaining the goodwill and support of the American authorities which permitted his activities as an American citizen in Germany, and which would possibly allow an Institute to be founded. (The fate of the journal Der Ruf (The Call), founded by Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch, which was banned by the American military government in 1947 for its `nihilistic’ ideas about democracy, was only one among many examples showing how narrow were the limits of what the American authorities would permit or even support. William Faulkner’s novels, describing the collapse of the old aristocratic families in the American South and the rise of unscrupulous upstarts, were banned in 1947 even during a preliminary selection in Washington of books to be exported to Germany because, as it was stated, they presented a wholly negative image of American society.) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1722

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fascist suppression of dissident publishing came through administrative bans and harassment; Koeppen’s postwar novels fused Joyce and Faulkner techniques with Nazi trauma. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2217

Broader Connections

• Fascist suppression of dissident publishing came through administrative bans and harassment #expands (0.75)
• Koeppen’s postwar novels fused Joyce and Faulkner techniques with Nazi trauma. #complicates (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2217