05/11/2026
This is why we are hellbent on stopping Jennifer Pippin, Moms for Liberty, Family First and Jackie Rosario!
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On May 6, 1933, N**i students and storm troopers attacked Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) in Berlin. Days later, on May 10, they dragged its library into the street and fed it to a bonfire. Roughly 20,000 books, photographs, case files, journals, and irreplaceable records went up in smoke.
The institute had been founded in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay Jewish doctor who was decades ahead of his time. Hirschfeld argued that sexuality and gender were part of human diversity, not crimes to punish. He became a target of the right wing in Germany almost instantly.
His institute offered medical care, counseling, legal advocacy, and serious research. It supported gay men, le****ns, trans people, and anyone crushed by Germany’s anti-gay laws. It was one of the first places on earth where q***r people could walk through the front door and be treated like human beings.
That made it dangerous for the fascists.
The N**is hated Hirschfeld for three reasons. First, he was Jewish. Second, he was q***r. But maybe worst, he believed knowledge could liberate the people N**is wanted terrified and obedient.
So they came for the files first.
Among the materials destroyed were early studies on sexuality, records from trans patients, personal testimonies, and pioneering work on gender-affirming care. Some of the first modern surgeries and identity documents for trans people had roots there. Entire branches of human understanding were reduced to ash before most countries had even begun them.
Many people see the burning of Institut für Sexualwissenschaft as a symbol of censorship. It was also a warning shot aimed at anyone outside their narrow idea of humanity.
Hirschfeld was abroad on a lecture tour when it happened. He watched newsreel footage of the destruction later. He never returned to Germany.
