My Berlin: the buried Bibliothek at Bebelplatz
On a clear cool late-autumn morning, a young child is looking through an opening in the cobblestone plaza. She looks up to the man standing next to her.
“Daddy, why is there a glass window? What happened here?”
The thing to keep in mind is that this square in Berlin is called Bebelplatz (BAY-buhl-platz), and not Babbleplatz. It’s easy to make the mistake. After all, a great repository of books was once created inside the building seen above, in what was once home of the Königliche Bibliothek or Royal Library.
But then came along a large racist blather.
Accompanied by a big ugly fire.
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