1./ The Holocaust was such a devastating event in human history we need continually to learn its lessons. All the more unfortunate then that @HMD_UK repeats canards about Magnus Hirschfeld and his Berlin clinic. Yet again, Hirschfeld is promoted as an uncomplicated hero. 👇 
2./ In fact, Hirschfeld promoted castration as a cure for homosexuality, his ethnology chief argued for African colonial subjugation and the surgeon he employed to do the first sex change surgery would help lead the Nazi effort to sterilise the disabled.👇
https://twitter.com/TwisterFilm/status/1408150587175227396?s=20
3./ Gohrbrand would later commission appalling experiments at Dachau. As the horrors of the Nazi regime recede from living memory it's never been more important to ensure every statement made during Holocaust Memorial Day is based firmly in facts. Hirschfeld was no hero.
4./ I will light a candle tonight to honour all those who suffered under the Nazis, including an estimated 15000 gay men. It will also honour Erwin Gorhbrand's victims: hundreds of POWs, thousands of the disabled and a troubled male patient who was experimented on by Hirschfeld.
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