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Berlin
Bebelplatz
The Monument
"We went to
Bebelplatz which is where the book burning took place
The memorial to this event is excellent
You look down through a square window in the ground into a room
full of empty bookshelves
It is lit up at night and is meant to look like a fire in the
middle of the square
I thought it reflected the event very well"
Bebelplatz - Site of the 10th May 1933
Nazi book burning
Today a monument, designed by Micha Ullman in 1995, commemorates
the event
with a translucent panel showing empty bookshelves below ground
level
Nearby is a plaque bearing the poet Heinrich Heine's words from
1820
"where books are burned, in the end people will burn"