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Magnus Hirschfeld

German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)

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Nov 28, 2025
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What was the legal status of prostitution in Weimar Republic Germany?

Prostitution in the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) sat in a legal grey zone: Germany moved from a 19th‑century system of regulationism—where prostitution was officially illegal yet tolerated under strict...

Jan 19, 2026
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What specific authors and titles are documented as burned during the May 1933 book burnings in Berlin and other German cities?

Contemporary reporting and major historical summaries of the May 1933 “Action against the Un‑German Spirit” identify thousands of volumes and name many affected authors, but they rarely publish compre...

Nov 13, 2025
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What were the Nazi laws and policies targeting LGBTQ+ individuals during the Holocaust?

The core claim is that the Nazi regime relied on an intensified criminal statute, Paragraph 175, plus new administrative institutions and extralegal measures to systematically persecute LGBTQ+ people—...

Jan 13, 2026

Was Hitler intention to prevent transgender society

Historical evidence shows the Nazi state suppressed, criminalized and in many cases deported or murdered people who today would be described as transgender, but scholars also emphasize that persecutio...

Jan 11, 2026

transgenderism is an absurdity that never existed before

The claim that “transgenderism is an absurdity that never existed before” is contradicted by a broad body of historical and scholarly reporting showing gender-variant people and third‑gender roles acr...

Jan 11, 2026

Jews created transgenderism

The claim "Jews created transgenderism" is an over-simplified and misleading framing: scholarship and historical records show Jewish thinkers, clergy, and activists have contributed to medical, legal,...

Jan 20, 2026

How did Nazi propaganda link Jewish people to sexual morality campaigns during the 1930s, and which historians have analyzed those narratives?

Nazi propaganda in the 1930s explicitly tied Jews to alleged sexual threats—framing Jewish men as predators, miscegenation as existential danger, and Jews as corrupters of sexual morality—in service o...

Dec 17, 2025

¿Que tan extremo era el nivel de vida sexual en weismar de 1917 a 1932? ¿cual era el contexto socioeconómico de entonces a nivel Municipio/condado/Estado?

Weimar-era sexual life ranged from visible urban experimentation in cities like Berlin to contested and uneven legal and medical reforms—sexual liberation was pronounced in metropolitan culture but di...

Oct 9, 2025

Which authors were specifically targeted by the Nazi regime for book burning?

The provided analyses converge on a clear finding: the Nazi book-burning campaign of 1933 targeted , and included prominent figures such as Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Magnus Hirschfeld...