Dora Richter, the first ever trans woman to undergo gender reassignment surgery, was usually thought to have died during the Nazis burning of the Institute for Sexual Research. However, new evidence points to Richter having successfully escaped the Nazis, and living a long life, until 1966, where she died at age 74.

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    4 months ago

    one of the biggest propaganda victories of the fourth reich was establishing the narrative that the nazi book burning rallies were about them being anti-book, deliberately waltzing past the question of which books big-honk were being burned?

    rip dora rosa-salute

    i'm glad to read maybe she made it out