The Institute for Sexual Research, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, was a pioneering medical center devoted to the study of gender and sexuality in Weimar Germany.

Heinrich Heine's prophetic statement, "Where they have burned books, they will end up burning people," is now engraved on the Bibliotek memorial in Berlin, commemorating the May 10, 1933 book burning presided over by Joseph Goebbels.

Shalom Auslander explores various humorous hypothetical uprisings in his piece "The Fires Next Time."