The Bebelplatz
in Berlin is where thousands of books by so-called 'enemies' of the Third Reich were burned in May of '33. Near this plaque, there is an underground monument. Looking down through a clear window on the ground, you can see a small room, entirely white. The walls are made of white bookshelves, but they are all empty.

Only seventy-three years ago. The Nazi students and SA were right here, making a bonfire of books. I have read history books, Anne Frank, Night, Number the Stars, Fahrenheit 451, Slaughterhouse 5, Catch 22, 1984...
but never before have they been so real to me.

The plaque reads:
"Where books are burned, in the end people will burn."