Babelplatz
November 9th 2008 Remember pictures, documentaries or stories of the book burning by the Third Reich on May 10, 1933?
Well, that was here, in Babelplatz.
25,000 titles were burned. Many were original first editions. Irreplaceable. The titles chosen were pretty much anything that the Third Reich didn't agree with. Books and journals were taken from the university library by students and fed into the bonfires.
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