After they targeted trans people in 1933, they targeted the disabled: in 1939, Hitler authorized a euthanasia program, a thinly veiled attempt at eugenics
In 1941, this program became the model for the death camps
They target the smallest minorities first and then escalate: that is the playbook
In 1941, this program became the model for the death camps
They target the smallest minorities first and then escalate: that is the playbook
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
In 1933.
(Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.)
They always come for trans people first.
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These first mobile gas chambers were used to kill, not Jews, but people with mental disabilities who were considered a burden on the state.