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  • English: A uniformed member of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) and a student of the Academy of Physical Exercise examine materials plundered from the library of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, director of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin on May 6, 1933. While some materials were burned immediately on the street outside the Institute, others were loaded onto trucks and carted away for sorting. Some were torched at the ceremonial book burning on Berlin's Opera Square on May 10, but selected valuable antiquarian books and periodicals were actually sold abroad, including some that were purchased by Hirschfeld himself, since he aimed to establish a new Institute in exile in Paris. The public library of the Institute comprised approximately 10,000 mostly rare German and foreign books on the topics of sex and gender. (Manfred Baumgardt, Schwules Museum Berlin).
  • Italiano: Studenti nazisti ed SA saccheggiano la biblioteca del Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, direttore dell'"Istituto di ricerca sessuale" a Berlino, il 6 maggio 1933. I materiali moderni furono caricati su camion e bruciati in piazza, mentre i quasi 10.000 volumi scientifici, rari e d'antiquariato, per lo più tedeschi ma anche stranieri, furono venduti all'estero e dispersi.
Date Taken on 6 May 1933
institution QS:P195,Q238990
Credit line courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Source United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #01628 https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa26351
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German students and Nazi SA plunder the library of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Director of the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin. Rare books on the topics of sex and gender were loaded onto trucks and carted away for burning.

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