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The Nazis targeted that Institute because its founder and director, Magnus Hirschfeld, was Jewish and homosexual. It had nothing to do with trans.
by benekel 2y ago
The Nazis targeted that Institute because its founder and director, Magnus Hirschfeld, was Jewish and homosexual. It had nothing to do with trans.
- aguaviva 2y agoSeems unlikely, given that May 1933 the attack wasn't just against Hirschfeld, but against the entire Institute, and as a part of the broader "Action against un-German Spirit". FWIW, the US Holocaust Museum specifically says the Nazis hated Hirschfeld not just for being Jewish and for his own sexuality, but for his pacifism and theories about gender - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/magnus-hirschfeld-2 https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/magnus-hir...