The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic
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The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

“Love is as varied as people are.”

~Magnus Hirschfeld (date unknown)

  • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
    451·
    6 months ago

    In Germany you can always tell if a historic thing was good or bad by whether it started or ended in 1933.

    • Azuth@lemmy.today
      8·
      6 months ago

      The social progressiveness and economic struggles of Weimar Germany make me very nervous about where we are now in the US. History may not always repeat itself but it does rhyme.

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
    20·
    6 months ago

    In school (US) they taught us about the book burnings but conveniently left out that a lot of the most famous pictures are from this institute being ransacked. The suppression of knowledge continues :/