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2024-03-14 12:41:23 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: D5C3B2B69660E6053FC51EE3E3F6109018BA0DA75740FDACE1466B6362A94402
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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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