Out of the ashes of books, a festival
A little hope for your Monday
On May 10, 1933, books were burned in Babelplatz. By students.
In April of that same year, many supporters of the regime announced that books incompatible with the Nazi ideology ought to be destroyed. The May 10th burning stands out as the largest, but the burnings continued for months.
One of my favorite memorials in Berlin now co…