I know Canadian libraries operate similarly, but I mean more so like in Europe. Are they as big there as they are here? And do they require fees to join, or are paid via taxes like here as well?

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      I have never heard of banning books in public libraries in France. I don’t think a single French library has Mein Kampf or the like though, except for the Bibliothèque Nationale de France which has one version of every book that’s published by a French house.

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      I think it depends on the country. I’d assume most of western Europe doesn’t.

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      The only instance I could find of books being banned since WW2 is a list of Nazi propaganda that libraries were instructed to discard in 1946.