On this day, 6 May 1933, Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. Run by Magnus Hirschfeld, the Institute was a pioneering organisation which supported gay and transgender rights, and equality for women.
Hirschfeld coined the term “transsexualism”, the Institute employed numerous transgender workers and it had begun offering the first modern gender affirmation surgery.
A few days after the raid, the Institute’s huge library was burned in the streets while Joseph Goebbels delivered a speech. The Nazis then stepped up persecution of LGBT people, mass arresting gay men and trans women in particular and sending thousands to concentration, some of whom were forced to serve out their sentences by Allied authorities after “liberation”.
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cocainaenvenenada said:
Berlin was the core of a perverted movement during those Sex Institute’s days … - worstcasescenarioposterboy said:
Nazis said Jews were subhuman filth yet concentration camp guards had harems of Jewish women as sexual playthings bartering sex for necessities. It’s always you American Conservative Republican politician anti-gay that gets caught at a glory hole in an airport bathroom. Racist senator Jesse helms fathered a child’ with his black housekeeper.. powerful people have powerful vices and the whole world is guilty
- worstcasescenarioposterboy said:
And it’s funny how the methamphetamine that fueled the blitzkrieg was called PERViten.. and was a catalyst for all those sexual atrocities that the Nazis were denouncing and exterminating people who participated in those sexual practices. That phrase the Russians are coming was sexual payback for the atrocities committed in Russia and they were ordered to rape and defile every female in Berlin especially the young innocent ones..
- worstcasescenarioposterboy said:
@notyourmoderate you definitely hit on something with homophobe racist connection and nobody can say that it’s just your opinion since leader of the ku Klux Klan was arrested with a black trans prostitute. I mean it’s no surprise that the person screaming the loudest denouncing something is actually guilty of it themselves. DEA reports that every white supremacist meth lab has a huge supply of interracial porn.
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