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2024-03-13 18:38:49 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 590D0FA48826A0DDB5FDBD8880168E0970A6948AE5001AD6C16B9B06BCF3F9A0
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The Nazi's targeted The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin, which was a LGBTQ+ clinic founded in 1919 that offered hormone therapy and performed the first MtF sex-change surgery. It's research was publicly burned, marking the first of Hitler's book bonfires. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/ https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/gay-people/ https://daily.jstor.org/90-years-on-the-destruction-of-the-institute-of-sexual-science/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/nazi-book-burnings-in-germany-may-1933
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