Thomas tells us about pioneering German sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Research during the height of the Weimar Republic and through to its destruction by the Nazis.
Sources:
Karl M. Baer. Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years. University of Pennsylvania Press: 2009. (Original German edition published in 1907, author's name given as N.O. Body).
Heike Bauer. The Hirschfeld Archives. Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture. Temple University Press: 2017. Robert Beachy, Gay Berlin, Birthplace of a Modern Identity. Knopf: 2014.
Robert Beachy. "Gay Berlin, Birthplace of a Modern Identity." Lecture, American Academy in Berlin: 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFvP2xOFzfcRalf Dose. Magnus Hirschfeld. The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement. NYU Press: 2014. (Original German edition published in 2005).
Jennifer Evans. "The Nazi Policy Against Homosexuals." Lecture, U of MN Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAg2e3DUZeEMagnus Hirschfeld. Racism. Victor Gollancz, Ltd.: 1938. (Translated and edited by Eden and Cedar Paul.)Richard Oswald and Magnus Hirschfeld. "Anders als die Andern." (Different from the Others.) 1919. 50 min., film fragment.
https://archive.org/details/youtube-oEMeNthlvRQ
