Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Ep. 57- Magnus Hirschfeld, the trans community, and the Nazis with Brandy Schillace
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Ep. 57- Magnus Hirschfeld, the trans community, and the Nazis with Brandy Schillace
Send us a text
When the Nazis carried out their infanous and well-documented book burning on the Opernplatz in May 1933, the literal fuel for that fire came from Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science, an institution that both studied and provided treatment for LGBTQ Germans.
In this episode, I talked with Brandy Schillace about Hirschfeld, the struggle for gay rights in Weimar Germany, and the Nazi assault on the gay community as well as the connections between this homophobia and antisemitism and genocide.
Brandy Schillace, PhD is an independent historian and journalist.
Schillace, Brandy. The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story (2025)
Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod.
Email the podcast at [email protected]
The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here
You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here.
View all episodes
By Waitman Wade Beorn
4.7
5858 ratings
Send us a text
When the Nazis carried out their infanous and well-documented book burning on the Opernplatz in May 1933, the literal fuel for that fire came from Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science, an institution that both studied and provided treatment for LGBTQ Germans.
In this episode, I talked with Brandy Schillace about Hirschfeld, the struggle for gay rights in Weimar Germany, and the Nazi assault on the gay community as well as the connections between this homophobia and antisemitism and genocide.
Brandy Schillace, PhD is an independent historian and journalist.
Schillace, Brandy. The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story (2025)
Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod.
Email the podcast at [email protected]
The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here
You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here.
More shows like The Holocaust History Podcast
View all
History Extra podcast
3,192 Listeners
The WW2 Podcast
1,236 Listeners
Melvin Federbush's Holocaust Survivor Stories
80 Listeners
Dan Snow's History Hit
4,800 Listeners
Talking Tudors
738 Listeners
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
1,367 Listeners
Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust
165 Listeners
Gone Medieval
1,840 Listeners
Not Just the Tudors
2,040 Listeners
On Auschwitz
183 Listeners
Battleground
327 Listeners
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
498 Listeners
HOLOCAUST HiSTORIES
21 Listeners
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
1,079 Listeners
WW2: Both Sides of The Wire | A Battle Guide Production
97 Listeners