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My virtue is that I say what I think, my vice that what I think doesn't amount to much.

Friday, July 16, 2021

The Empty Library

That was but a prelude;
where they burn books,
they will ultimately burn people as well.




On May 10, 1933, in the Bebelplatz in central Berlin, members of the National Socialist Student Union burned 20,000 books. In 1995, Israeli sculptor Micha Ullman created a memorial room under the plaza, with empty shelves enough to accommodate 20,000 books.

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