'The Book Thief'

There have been plenty of books about Nazi Germany, but the theme of this recently released movie is books in Nazi Germany, and those that were banned; very early in the regime there were public bonfires of books the Nazis didn't like, including those with pacifist and communist themes and anything authored by a Jew. Prejudice extended to some authors in the eastern countries they planned to conquer, the so-called Untermenschen.

In the movie a girl manages to rescue copies of books from their imminent destruction and bring them to a Jew in hiding. Interestingly, one real example of someone rescuing copies of banned books was none other than one of the Nazis's own officials - in occupied France the head of the Propaganda-Staffel censorship authority, Gerhard Heller, said in his memoirs that upon visiting a warehouse full of seized books of the categories mentioned, he could not resist scooping up copies and hiding them in his Paris office. Heller was a francophile with an interest in French literature and after the war spent his time translating it into German for which he received formal recognition.

As can be seen in the trailer there are some nice German steam scenes, which are always a reason for watching a movie.