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Left side of the plaque reads:

"There was a prelude only there,
he who burns books
also burns men in the end."
- It's a quote from Heinrich Heine years before the Nazis started actually doing this

"Library" von Micha Volman (can't read that last name)
Memorial
"The book burning of May 10th, 1933"
built '94/'95

And the right side reads:
"In the middle of this plaza on May 10th, 1933 Nazi students burned the works of hundreds of authors, journalists, philosophers, and scientists."

Thanks to Sean Carmack for the translation and for correcting my previous mistake.