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Bebelplatz
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Bebel Square
The Bebelplatz is known as the site of one of the infamous Nazi book burning ceremonies held in the evening of 10 May 1933 in many German university cities.
Today a memorial by Micha Ullman consisting of a glass plate set into the cobbles, giving a view of empty bookcases commemorates the book burning.
Furthermore, a line of Heinrich Heine from his play, Almansor (1821), is engraved on a plaque inset in the square: "Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen" - "That was only a prelude; where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people" ( read more )
Bebel Square address ( Show map )
Unter den Linden. Berlin.Berlin. Germany.
How to get to Bebel Square ?
Subway: Französische Straße
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