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To: euram

When you read about “Nazi book burning”, it’s the transgender institute records and books they are talking about.


13 posted on 04/21/2023 7:53:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing )
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To: Jim Noble

You are the ONLY one to actually point that out in all the years I’ve seen hysterical articles about burning books.

6 MAY 1933: LOOTING OF THE INSTITUTE OF SEXOLOGY

https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/

Jewish, gay and outspokenly liberal, Hirschfeld was an obvious target for the Nazis, and the seizure and destruction of the institute on 6 May took place only three months after Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany. During the attack and subsequent book burning, Hirschfeld was working in Paris. He saw the burning of his own library in a news report at the cinema. Among the texts thrown onto the bonfire at the Bebelplatz was Heinrich Heine’s Almansor, in which the author noted:


17 posted on 04/21/2023 7:58:54 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: Jim Noble

Pretty crazy I’ve seen those pictures all my life and only now am I learning what the contents of those books were.


21 posted on 04/21/2023 8:14:04 AM PDT by Shadow44
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