This square in front of the Humboldt university is very famous. It dates back to 1740 but was named after the SPD party founder August Bebel in 1947. In the centre of the square is a monument to the night of May 10, 1933, when the Nazis burnt books written by Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Heine, Kastner, Zweig, Karl Marx and many others. On a bronze plaque is written a prophetic quote by writer Heinrich Heine from 1820 that reads 'where books are burned, in the end people will burn'.