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| | Introductions to selected countries and periods of time |
 | | As Norway is the initiator of the project and self criticism constitutes the best foundation for criticising others, the history of censorship in Norway naturally has been included. |
 | | In addition, Norway unlike many other countries has complete records of all suppressed books through the history of printing, as well as complete records of censored books and illegal publishing through the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. |
 | | Selected countries are: Spain, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Japan, Iran, Italy, Lithuania, Germany, Norway, Malawi, Russia, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, USA and the Vatican State. |
| www.beaconforfreedom.org /about_database/countries.html (808 words) |
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