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3 unusual facts about Institut für Sexualwissenschaft


Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

Rosa von Praunheim (Dir.) The Einstein of Sex (Germany, 2001).

LGBT history in Germany

1919 – In Berlin, Germany, Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld co-founds the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research), a pioneering private research institute and counseling office.

Nazis burn the library of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Research, and destroy the Institute


Francis Turville-Petre

In 1928 he moved to Berlin, Germany and stayed at the Institute of Sexual Research, run by Dr Magnus Hirschfeld.


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