students surround glass plate commemorating the burning of the books by the Nazis bebelplatz history heritage berlin germany
Bebelplatz Opernplatz public square Berlin Germany Unter den Linden east-west thoroughfare centre city site book burning ceremony May 10 1933 brownshirts Nazi youth Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels Nazis burned 20,000 books, including works by Thomas Mann Erich Maria Remarque Heinrich Heine Karl Marx Today a glass plate set into the Bebelplatz, giving a view of empty bookcases, commemorates this event. Furthermore, a line of Heine is engraved, stating "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen" (in English: "Where they burn books, they will also burn humans in the end").
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