Bebelplatz

This guide to Bebelplatz in Berlin returns to May 10, 1933, when novelist Erich Kästner stood unrecognized in the crowd and watched Nazi students burn his own books on this square while propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels addressed the crowd. It follows the roughly twenty thousand volumes destroyed that rainy night, from Karl Marx to Stefan Zweig, and the underground glass memorial artist Micha Ullman built into the cobblestones decades later. Look down before you look up.