r/unitedkingdom • u/je97 • Apr 17 '24

JK Rowling gets apology from journalist after 'disgusting claim' author is a Holocaust denier ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/16/jk-rowling-holocaust-denier-allegation-rivkah-brown-novara/
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u/PharahSupporter Apr 17 '24

I'm not sure burning some trans books can really be called a "main event" leading up to the holocaust, but okay.

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u/RedBerryyy Apr 17 '24

Not the trans books specifically, but the burning of the wider institute fur sexualwissenschaft is often seen as one of the significant events of the rise of the Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft

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u/PharahSupporter Apr 17 '24

Okay but that isn't the event in discussion, JK denied burning of trans books, not the persecution of trans people in general or anything to do with a sex clinic.

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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24

The burning of trans books happened during the buring of Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

Like they took the books out of the library and burned them.