Last year, a German court acknowledged the possibility that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis
Further Reading
Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case - Volume 56 Issue 4
Resources on the history and lived experiences of queer people in Nazi Germany.
The Pink Triangle Legacies Project is a grassroots initiative dedicated to researching the experiences of queer and trans people in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
This series features conversations about the Nazis’ persecution of LGBTQI+ people, how this legacy reverberates in our contemporary society,
A YouTube playlist of lectures from the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Queensborough Community College.
Abstract. Weimar Berlin is considered a past haven of queer possibility, but for trans people its permissiveness had clear limits. A close r
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.
On the Institute for Sexual Research
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10
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The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture
Forever recommending How Sex Changed as a nonfiction reference book, which goes over Hirschfeld, Lili Elbe, Harry Benjamin, Christine Jorgenson, Lou Sullivan, WPATH, and more:
'How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States' by Joanne Meyerowitz
Also important context to the services Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science provided: testosterone was first isolated as a compound in 1927, and first synthesized in 1935. The looting and shutdown of the institute happened in 1933.
