The heart of the city is easy to cover on foot, which means that in a short time one can visit many of the principal landmarks of the atrocities of the Nazi era: the square in front of Humboldt University where the book-burning of 1933 took place (commemorated by a remarkable underground monument - a room, visible through a pane of glass, full of empty bookshelves), the Neue Synagoge that was set afire on Kristallnacht, the Jewish hospital that was turned into a collection point… [read post]