Macabre Matters Present: Kristallnacht Special

First and foremost, we want to extend our hearts to the victims of the shooting in Nashville. Who's lives were cut short by an evil and hateful person and by those who refuse to take action against the gun crisis in the United States.

In Memorial to Evelyn Dieckhaus (age 9)

In Memorial to Mike Hill (age 61)

In Memorial to Katherine Koonce (age 60)

In Memorial to Cynthia Peak (age 61)

In Memorial to Hallie Scruggs (age 9)

In Memorial to William Kinney (age 9)

It is unacceptable that these deaths have occurred, and their blood is at the hand of legislatures across the country. It is an undeniable fact that gun legislation is needed to protect our children. Yet our government seems to want to fight a culture war instead of fighting for us and these families. This will not be the last in a list of tragic shootings, this year alone we are at 125 mass killing events. Fight for not only these 6 but for all Americans who have needlessly died for a narrative.

Now let's begin this dark history.

In 1919 Magnus Hirshfield opened the institute of sexual science in Berlin Germany after a soldier came to him in defiance of paragraph 175 of German law. “The thought that you could contribute to [a future] when the German fatherland will think of us in more just terms,” he wrote, “sweetens the hour of death.” This soldier later killed himself and Magnus Hirshfield committed himself to the understanding of sexuality and gender. Hirshfield later went on to collect and discover great strides in the understanding of these topics leading to his greatest achievement of the first successful gender reassignment surgery. Dora Richter became the first to receive a successful gender reassignment surgery in 1931. She later went on to work as a maid at the institute until the rise of the Nazi regime.

The Nazis claimed that they were "protecting German youths" from the deviance and claimed Magnus Hirshfield as the "Most dangerous Jew in Germany". On May 6, 1933, the Nazis raided the institute and burned some 20,000 books related to the LGBT community and killed or imprisoned anyone who worked at the institute. Dora Richter's life as known by the remaining historical record ends with the end of the institute.

In 1935 Hitler began the Nuremburg laws which prevented Jewish people from participating in many aspects of public life from getting insurance, marring, sitting on a public bench, owning a business, and many more indescribable horrors. One of these laws expelled non-German jews from the country which eventually led to one of the worst nights in German history. On November 7, 1938, a Jewish Pole Herschel Grynszpan assassinated a Nazi diplomat named Ernst vom Rath. On November 9, 1938, Jewish businesses, synagogues, and homes were destroyed.

Our sources https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht

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