Book Burnings and Sexual Science: A Dark Chapter

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did to society, what it felt like to live through it, and -- as always -- what role gender and sexuality played in events. Reminder: We're going month by month for these episodes. This second installment covers May 1 to May 31 -- the fate of trade unions, the nascent LGBT movement and the women's movement.

Here are the books/texts we refer to in this episode:

Timothy Mason, Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class (1995)

Laurie Marhoefer, Sex and the Weimar Republic (2016)

Richard J. Evans, “Workers didn’t bring us Fascism”, Jacobin (2021)

Richard J. Evans, The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933 [here on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/feministmovement0000evan/page/238/mode/2up]

Barbara Greven-Aschoff, Die bürgerliche Frauenbewegung in Deutschland 1894–1933 (1981)

Jens Dobler, Polizei und Homosexuelle in der Weimarer Republik (2020)

Rainer Herrn, Der Liebe und dem Leid: Das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft 1919-1933 (2022)