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Book Burning Memorial

As part of The New Yorker's lovely 1,000 Words feature, in which they showcase "great images of books from around the world and the web," they've highlighted a picture of a book sculpture created in memory of German writers and poets in the Bebelplatz in Berlin. The Bebelplatz is notable for being the site of a Nazi book burning in which more than 20,000 books went up in flames in a single day. It's such a striking image. And an important one. Go take a look.
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  1. Juju11:07 AM

    What a cool memorial! Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

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  2. Angiegirl11:24 AM

    Juju, I thought so too. Very fitting.

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