Episode 11, The Einstein of Sex, Daniel Brook chronicles the groundbreaking fight of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld 

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The cover to Daniel Brook's new book on Hirschfeld

 

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Magnus Hirschfeld and his carefully created dapper, yet slightly rumpled image 

 

The Institute for Sexual Science

 

Several interior shots of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute

 

 

A display of miniature fetish boots

 

 

Magnus Hirschfeld outside the institute with two friends in Drag

 

One of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery

 

A costume party at the Institute, with Hirschfeld front/right, hand in hand with his lover

 

Nazi Students march past the doors of the institute

 

Nazi Students comb through the institute's library for ‘non-German’ books

 

the burning of the institutes library

 

 

 

Hirschfeld with his lover Li Shiu Tong on his Asian Tour

 

 

 

Hirschfeld's grave in Nice, France

 

 

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