Bebelplatz
Best visited at night, as it is more evocative then, Bebelplatz is a square along Unter den Linden. Located here is an eloquent memorial to the notorious Nazi book burning that took place on the night of May 10, 1933. Through a window set in the pavement, you can look below to a small library lined with empty bookshelves. Some 25,000 books were burned, all by authors considered enemies of the Third Reich. Nearby is a plaque with the prophetic words of the poet Heinrich Heine. In 1820 he wrote, 'Where books are burned, in the end people will burn.'
Best visited at night, as it is more evocative then, Bebelplatz is a square along Unter den Linden. Located here is an eloquent memorial to the notorious Nazi book burning that took place on the night of May 10, 1933. Through a window set in the pavement, you can look below to a small library lined with empty bookshelves. Some 25,000 books were burned, all by authors considered enemies of the Third Reich. Nearby is a plaque with the prophetic words of the poet Heinrich Heine. In 1820 he wrote, 'Where books are burned, in the end people will burn.'
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