Humboldt-Universität Berlin

During the reign of the NDSAP between 1933 and 1934, about 250 Jewish professors and employees of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today: Humboldt-Universität) were fired by the "Gesetzes zur Wiederherstellung Forum des Berufsbeamtentums". Many of them and Jewish students were later deported. On 10 May 1933, 20,000 books from the Uuniversity library were openly burned at the Opernplatz (now: Bebelplatz). The University was heavily damaged during the battle of Berlin in 1945.

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• Text: Kaj Metz
• Photos: Kaj Metz