"Destruction of Institutions and Erasure of History Upon seizing power in 1933, the Nazis targeted the vibrant trans community in Weimar Germany by shutting down safe spaces like the Eldorado nightclub and raiding the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science). Led by Magnus Hirschfeld, this institute pioneered early gender-affirming surgeries and trans rights advocacy; its library was burned by Nazi students, destroying decades of medical records and research in an act of “memoricide.” Legal Persecution and Concentration Camps The regime revoked the “transvestite certificates” that had previously allowed some trans people to live openly, leading to widespread arrests. Trans women were often prosecuted under Paragraph 175 (criminalizing homosexuality) or Paragraph 183 (public indecency/cross-dressing), while trans men faced harassment and forced detransition. Many were sent to concentration camps such as Buchenwald and Mauthausen, where they were subjected to forced castration, torture, and murder; notable victims include trans women Liddy Bacroff and H. Bode. " Nazis still doing Nazi stuff. Anyone in the government could get rid of these things whenever they wanted, IF THEY WANTED TO