For the history of the official listing of exile literature I suggest you to go to the website of the Sammlung deutsche Exilliteratur und Deutsches Exilarchiv of the German National Library (only the headlines are in English: http://www.d-nb.de/eng/sammlungen/dea/exil/index.htm). Under "History" you find the names of the official lists of German banned books. The colleagues in that department would answer your further questions.
Bettina Rüdiger
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Von: Rare book and manuscripts [mailto:EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] Im Auftrag von cjscheiner@POL.NET
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2006 13:00
An: EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
Betreff: Re: [EXLIBRIS-L] Digital Card catalogs
I especially like OPACs that supply a searchable index to images of the original catalog cards, complete with the old markings on them that may not become part of the final electronic catalog. HeBis-Retro does this nicely. For example see the card for Kronhausen's 1934 SAARVOLK IM KAMPF:
http://retro.hebis.de:80/cgi-bin/make_index.pl?RPN=7278941&TRFNR=1&SID=116600977927823&SET=1&NUMBER=1
This is particularly helpful since I am trying to help the author, now 90, find copies of official German Government notices from the 1930s and 1940s documenting that his book was officially censored. (If any Exlibris member can suggest official documents from the 1934-1944 period that listed German books banned for political reasons I would appreciate that).
C.J. Scheiner
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> Another thing that happens to card catalogues is that they can be
> digitised and made searchable, giving an interim form of OPAC >pending
full retroconv.
> David Shaw