Book burning is incorrectly thrown out as a form of censorship and a hallmark of fascism by many people.
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The Nazis did burn books. But most people don't know what the most famous incident was.
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Goebbels spoke before 40,000 spectators as the libraries of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft were burned.
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These libraries contained the sum of all modern knowledge of transgender people. This knowledge has still not been reclaimed.
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A monument stands here now. Below the ground. It is empty shelves of a library.pic.twitter.com/w587KXq2f0
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These shelves contained everything about people like me. Hormone studies still never repeated.
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Of all the memorials I have seen, this is the first to reduce me to tears. I am standing over it now, weeping.
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We have the technology to make this never happen again. But we won't spend the money to rebuild that knowledge.
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It's left to the people like us to collect our records and tell our stories, shouting them into the wind until they are heard.
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So many of us don't have the voice. But we shout anyways. I'm just going to keep shouting.
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