Registered in Hamburg in 1932, financed by British-Jewish money and with an office in Paris, Albatross printed English-language books in Germany – including contemporary novels by writers such as James Joyce and DH Lawrence that were banned in Hitler’s Third Reich – and sold them across continental Europe. This study reveals how the Nazi regime tolerated Albatross for both economic and propaganda gains, and how Albatross used its insider position to keep Anglo-American books alive under fascism.