1933-03-07 Nazis Attack Gay Activist

Just five weeks after Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, the SS invades the Berlin apartment of Kurt Hiller, a prominent German gay activist. Hiller is later arrested and sent to a German concentration camp.

1933-03-23 Nazis arrest Kurt Hiller

Kurt Hiller, a key leader in the movement for sex law reform in Germany, was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis. Hiller managed eventually to escape Germany and flee to Prague and then London, thus surviving the Holocaust.

1933-05-10 Nazi Book Burning in Berlin

In Berlin, Nazis seize over 10,000 books from the library of the Institute of Sexual Science and burn them publicly. They also throw into the fire a bust of Magnus Hirschfeld, one of the most public leaders of the gay movement in pre-Nazi Germany.