Berlin

Veena shares a few notes on museums and memorials that she visited in Berlin.

…To Bebelplatz in front of the Humboldt university where the Nazis, in their early years, burnt books. Hemingway, Mann, Marx, Remarque everyone you can think of. As you walk across this large square today, you come across a glass plate in the middle. You peer down the glass plate and you see a room underground with white bookshelves on all four sides. All of these shelves are empty.A little distance away, a plaque on the ground with a Heinrich Heine quote from 1820: That was merely a prelude. Wherever they burn books, eventually they will burn people too.