The Reichsverband deutscher Schriftsteller (sometimes mis-translated Nazi Writers Union) was founded in 1933 by the

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government of the Third Reich in the process of 'germanizing' cultural institutions and purging it of foreign influences. This process was necessitated by the ''Reichskulturkammergesetz'' (National Cultural Chamber Act) of 9 September 1933. It encompassed writers of all literary

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s, and was part of a larger literary hierarchy, the ''Reichsschrifttumkammer'' (Reich Writers' Chamber), founded the same year. The Reich Writers Chamber was one of seven components of the Reich Cultural Chamber.

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