International Publishing in the Netherlands, 1933-1945 by Hendrik Edelman

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The Nazis closed in and it soon became apparent that more than half of the list consisted of books that could no longer be sold. Liquidation was the only resolution. It is not certain, what moved Emanuel Querido to initiate the discussions with Landshoff. His company had published Dutch translations of several prominent Kiepenheuer authors, such as Lion Feuchtwanger, Leonard Frank and Arnold Zweig. Moreover, Querido himself was a staunch anti-fascist. And plans for such a venture were already actively being discussed elsewhere in Amsterdam.

Libraries now needed to acquire not only the newly appearing books and journals, but also the past corpus of academic publications. German booksellers such as Otto Harrassowitz and Brockhaus took the challenge and developed long-term working relationships with American libraries. Leipzig bookseller Gustav Fock even established a branch in New York, as did the Dutch bookseller Martinus Nijhoff. 17 World War I and its aftermath was a watershed for German science, scientists and science publishing.

With very few financial resources at hand, Herzfelde promptly started a new literary magazine Neue Deutsche Blätter (1933–1935) and published books by Ilja Ehrenburg, Oskar Maria Graff and Bertolt Brecht. Malik Verlag became the first German exile publisher. Another German publisher, E. Prager, moved his business from Leipzig to Bratislava. But several other Czechoslovak publishers, who already were publishing in German now added banned writers to their list. Among them were Julius Kittl Verlag, Michael Kacha Verlag and Orbis Verlag.

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