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On this day 90 years ago the Nazis destroyed the first modern LGBTQ clinic in the WestOn January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by German President Paul von Hindenburg. On May 6, 1933, a Nazi student group marched to the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin (Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin). With members of the SA, they ransacked the institute and looted its library and archives. Days later, the stolen books, artifacts, and clinical files were destroyed in one of several public book burnings organized across Germany (ie the famous "Nazi bookburning" photo). A bust of Hirschfeld was paraded through the streets on a stick before being thrown onto the bonfire. Magnus Hirschfeld Magnus HirschfeldA leading researcher of sex, sexuality, and gender, German Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld was forced to live in exile after the Nazi rise to power.
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