At the book burning of 1933 in Berlin, which Kästner attended, his books were thrown into the fire to the accompaniment of a "fire oath." 1. They served the German community outside Germany with critical literature, and their books were also smuggled into Nazi Germany. WHEBN0026356840 He was also the author of a number of popular children's books. Erich Kästner hat keine gewaltigen Werke geschrieben. He was a writer and actor, known for The Parent Trap (1998), Das doppelte Lottchen (1950) and Emil and the Detectives (1931). Nationalsozialismus und Exilliteratur Nationalsozialismus und Exilliteratur . Nobel Prize in Literature, Zurich, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Szczecin, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Berlin, Paris, German literature, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Vienna, Petrópolis, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, New York City, Germany, European Union, S, Namibia, Switzerland, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Exilliteratur, Friedrich Schiller, Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Literature, Günter Grass, Sturm und Drang, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Switzerland, World War I, Austria, German literature, Berlin, Bertolt Brecht, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Berlin, Heinrich Heine,