Les Éditions de Minuit and De Bezige Bij

Not long after the start of the Second World War, the Nazis began to homogenize cultural institutions everywhere in Europe. Publishing houses were considered to be important instruments for the dispersion of political propaganda, by the Nazis but also by underground organizations. In this article, the process by which acts of censorship originating in Berlin gave rise to illegal publishing houses in France and the Netherlands is analyzed on the basis of the history of Les Éditions de Minuit and De Bezige Bij. We also show how these publishing houses carried on their work as legal businesses af... Mehr ...