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A dignified square along the grand boulevard of Unter den Linden in central Berlin, Bebelplatz is ringed by handsome buildings of the eighteenth century yet is remembered above all as the site of one of the most notorious episodes of the Nazi era. The square was laid out in the mid-eighteenth century as part of an ambitious royal scheme to create a forum of culture and learning, and it is bordered by the state opera house, the domed Catholic cathedral of Saint Hedwig and a wing of the old royal ...