Absolutely maddening that while being taught about the book burnings in middle school and high school that they conveniently gloss over what the contents of the first book burning were and where they came from other than "literature the Nazi's didn't like". I was several years into my transition before I learned about the Institute für Sexualwissenschaft.
Found it frustating too when teachers/book talk about communism bad because it arrest dissidents/political opponents, but never talk exactly what are those dissidents/political opponents beliefs are.
They teach us about the book The Jungle yet they never assign it to our reading lists, curious isn't it?
They teach us about Helen Keller when she was a child but never about her socialist activism as an adult
They teach us the sanitized version of the civil rights movement where Martin Luther King "had a dream" and Rosa Parks sat on a bus but never about Dr. King's more radical anti-war stance or his downright socialist stance on poverty that let to the Poor People's March let alone about the Black Panthers
And not just any old studies of trans people but the entire fucking archive of Berlin's institute of sexology, the first institution of its kind, that they shut down after taking power in 1933. Decades of scientific work was lost.
The institute didn't just research human sexuality, including gay, transgender and intersex studies, they also provided education and treatment on topics like alcoholism, veneral diseases, sexual counselling and contraception to professionals and the general public.
And look at this gem that I found on Wikipedia when reading about the institute:
The West German courts found that the foundation's dissolution and the seizure of property by the Nazis in 1934 was legal. The West German legislature also retained the Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, making it impossible for surviving gay men to claim restitution for the destroyed cultural center.
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Absolutely maddening that while being taught about the book burnings in middle school and high school that they conveniently gloss over what the contents of the first book burning were and where they came from other than "literature the Nazi's didn't like". I was several years into my transition before I learned about the Institute für Sexualwissenschaft.
Found it frustating too when teachers/book talk about communism bad because it arrest dissidents/political opponents, but never talk exactly what are those dissidents/political opponents beliefs are.
Well, saying "I want Nazis to be able to do whatever the fuck they want" isn't as easy to swallow
I'm ashamed to admit that I'm just learning this now.
There's no shame in learning
There's no shame in not knowing before! Unfortunately, our history isn't often talked about even though we've been here since the dawn of civilization.
It's like that with most of our education system
They teach us about the book The Jungle yet they never assign it to our reading lists, curious isn't it?
They teach us about Helen Keller when she was a child but never about her socialist activism as an adult
They teach us the sanitized version of the civil rights movement where Martin Luther King "had a dream" and Rosa Parks sat on a bus but never about Dr. King's more radical anti-war stance or his downright socialist stance on poverty that let to the Poor People's March let alone about the Black Panthers
I did always think that was fucking bizarre when I was in school
And not just any old studies of trans people but the entire fucking archive of Berlin's institute of sexology, the first institution of its kind, that they shut down after taking power in 1933. Decades of scientific work was lost.
The institute didn't just research human sexuality, including gay, transgender and intersex studies, they also provided education and treatment on topics like alcoholism, veneral diseases, sexual counselling and contraception to professionals and the general public.
And look at this gem that I found on Wikipedia when reading about the institute:
Germany must perish. :germany-cool:
Western postwar regime run by """ex""" Nazis
Ypical fourth reich moment.
west germany was just puppet Nazi Germany you will never change my mind