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  <h1 align="center">Your IP Address in Germany is Blocked from Certain eBooks at www.gutenberg.org</h1>
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<p>We apologize for this inconvenience.  Your IP address has been automatically blocked from accessing specific eBook files at www.gutenberg.org.  This is because the geoIP database shows your address is in the country of Germany.</p>

<p>The block applies to books by author Alfred D�blin (until January 1, 2028). No other Project Gutenberg eBooks, by any author, are blocked in Germany.</p>

<p>For more information, visit <a href="https://cand.pglaf.org/germany">cand.pglaf.org/germany</a>.</p>

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	Your IP address: <!--#echo var="REMOTE_ADDR" --><br />
	Referrer URL (if available): <!--#echo var="HTTP_REFERER" --><br />
	Browser: <!--#echo var="HTTP_USER_AGENT" --><br />
	Date:  <!--#echo var="DATE_GMT" --></p>
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    <h2>Why did this block occur?</h2>

<p>The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and its CEO settled a lawsuit with a German publisher, Fischer-Verlag. Under the terms of that settlement, Project Gutenberg eBooks by the three authors will be blocked from Germany until their German copyright expires.</p>
  
  <h2>This page in German</h2>

  <p>Automated translation (via Google Translate): <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=de&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblock.pglaf.org%2Fgermany.shtml">translate.google.com</a>

  <h2>How can I get unblocked?</h2>

<p>All IP addresses in Germany are blocked from the eBooks targeted in the lawsuit while they retain copyright protection in Germany.</p>

<h2>If your IP address lookup is incorrect</h2>

<p>Use the <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo">Maxmind GeoIP demo</a> to verify status of your IP address.  Project Gutenberg updates its listing of IP addresses approximately monthly.</p>

<p>Occasionally, the website mis-applies a block from a previous visitor. Because blocks are applied momentarily, you should try again later to visit <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">https://www.gutenberg.org</a> if Maxmind shows your address as being outside of Germany.<p>

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   <p>Please email the diagnostic information above to <pre>help2026 @ pglaf.org</pre> (removing the spaces around the @) and we will try to help.  The software we use sometimes flags "false positives" -- that is, blocks that should not have occurred.  Apologies if this happened, because human users outside of Germany who are making use of the eBooks or other site features should almost never be blocked.</p>

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  <p><i>Most recently updated: January 1, 2026.</i></p>

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