Royal Library (1784-1910)

Strolling for the last time through the city, I sought out the memorial for the booking burning that took place on 10th May 1933.

The Nazi German Student Association's Main Office for Press and Propaganda announced a nationwide initiative "against the un-German spirit", creating a literary blacklists that included Jewish, Marxist, Socialist, anti-family, and anti-German literature. It is estimated 20,000 books were burnt in the platz.

The memorial includes a quote from a Heinrich Heine 1817 play that says “Where they burn books, they will also burn people”, one hundred years before the book burning in Bebelplatz.

I needed Currywrust to help to bring me a little cheer 😋En savoir plus