Weimar Berlin was hotbed of homosexualism, male prostitution; home of first “male-to-female” surgery THINK Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray in Caberet. Think West Hollywood, Greenwich Village and Provincetown and the Castro, known as hotbeds of homosexuality. But they are nothing like…

by Karl Radl THE Spartacist Uprising of January 1919 in Berlin, Germany is often treated with kid gloves by historians, while the nationalists who suppressed it are openly vilified as proto-Nazi monsters. (1) The reality however is that the nationalists – aka the Freikorps – were in many respects the…

by Michael Walsh IN 1919, Magnus Hirschfeld and Arthur Kronfeld, founded the “Institut für Sexualwissenschaft” (Institute for ‘Sexual Research’) in Berlin. Both were active in the German Communist Party and were prominent members of Berlin’s Jewish community. A multitude of degenerate services…

H&D‘s ASSISTANT EDITOR Peter Rushton addressed a rally in Berlin on Saturday 19th August, calling for the release of official British documents reporting on the death of Rudolf Hess, thirty years ago this week. More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in the Spandau district of Berlin, close to…