During the Nazi book burnings , books by authors like Vladimir Iljic Lenin and Vladimir Vladimirovich were burned .
Not only German speaking authors were burned but also French authors like Victor Hugo , André Gide , Romain Rolland , Henri Barbusse , American writers such as Ernest Hemingway , Upton Sinclair , Theodore Dreiser , Jack London , John Dos Passos , and Helen Keller as well as English authors Joseph Conrad , D.H. Lawrence , H.G . Wells and Aldous Huxley , Irish writer James Joyce and Soviet authors including Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Maxim Gorki , Isaak Babel , Vladimir Iljic Lenin , Vladimir Nabokov , Leo Tolstoy , Leon Trotsky , Vladimir Vladimirovich , Ilja Ehrenburg .
Nazi book burnings