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As it happens, the Nazis' first book burnings were not of Jewish texts.
Well, the Nazis said they were; because they said everything they hated was "Jewish".
But they weren't Jewish religious or cultural books. They were what we'd now call LGBT+ books.
The Nazis' first book burnings were of the books and materials of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research), which advocated for sex education; and for tolerance of intersex, homosexual, and transgender people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings#The_burnings_start
And that's why, despite there being a hundred years of research on trans people, nazis today still call gender affirming care "experimental". They burned the research once and they'll do it again, if we let them.
FTFY
Yep. In the US today, the fascists' favorite slur is stolen from Black English where it means "aware of racial prejudice and discrimination".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
Well shit
Yep. When allied troops freed concentration camps victims, they didn't free the LGBT+ people. Those who survived were still considered criminals by the allies so they remained imprisoned.
Berlin was the height of queer culture in the 20s and before. It took us almost a hundred years to rebuild a modicum of tolerance, let alone acceptance. That's why these regressive pieces of shit are frothing at the mouth to commit their genocides again.
People are so depressingly reliably shitty
It's depressing to think how advanced we might have become as a society had Hitler and the Nazis never come into power. (To say nothing of all the people who wouldn't have been killed.)
I wonder if we ever would have even developed nuclear weapons without the Manhattan Project and the urgency with which it operated. It certainly would have taken us a hell of a lot longer without all the "talent" we scraped up from the Nazis.