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On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmbteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".

The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.

What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.

Remember, they came for trans people first.

@Terry that shows you that taking 'positive' war propaganda isn't a positive thing. This generation's right to eschew baselessly positive thinking as copium. It's doubtless that she thought
>our AD shoots down 100% of attacks anyway
>this western Patriot stuff is superhumanly good, not like the garbage Soviet tech that we're still having to use
>I'm going to film something that shows how invincible we are! Maybe I'll even get a prize for sharing this video!
A poem published on the London Underground celebrating the replacement of the indigenous people of these islands.
They aren't even hiding it anymore!
WHO AND EUROPEAN COMMISSION PARTNER FOR ‘DIGITAL HEALTH’ WITH NEW COVID-19 DIGITAL CERTIFICATE
I want Russia to win, in fact, I want them to conquer the whole fucking world.
Life won't improve for me, not one bit, but at least whoever wrote that shit will be in a gulag, or better yet, feeding the worms.
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