German-Jewish writer Henryk Broder addressed Germany's Bundestag in January, challenging the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party for its nationalist revival without fully acknowledging Germany's past crimes.

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.