Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

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The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The Institute was headed by the physician Magnus Hirschfeld. Since 1897 he had run the en:Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee ("Scientific-Humanitarian Committee")

The burning of the library outside the institute was on may 6th, rather than may 10th, but selected materials were trucked to the may 10 burning[1][2]

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  1. While some materials were burned immediately on the street outside the Institute, others were loaded onto trucks and carted away for sorting. Some were torched at the ceremonial book burning on Berlin's Opera Square on May 10, but selected valuable antiquarian books and periodicals were actually sold abroad, including some that were purchased by Hirschfeld himself, since he aimed to establish a new Institute in exile in Paris. The public library of the Institute comprised approximately 10,000 mostly rare German and foreign books on the topics of sex and gender. (Manfred Baumgardt, Schwules Museum Berlin).
  2. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/