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Since the trans echo chambers are currently buzzing with false trans holocaust claims, here are reposts of a few threads that debunk the central claims.

Toni Simon is one of the alleged trans women in queer historian Laurie Marhoefer’s 2022 paper ” Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case.” In the paper, one paragraph discussing her case is sandwiched between paragraphs discussing two “trans women” who were actually gay men and died in Nazi concentration camps, Heinrich Bode and Liddy Bacroff. About Simon, Marhoefer writes vaguely that the “final document in her file recommends sending her to a concentration camp,” suggesting to a casual reader that this indeed occurred. Only two paragraphs later, Marhoefer doubles down on the misleading suggestion that Simon had actually been sent to a concentration camp by criticizing the common opinion that people “like” Bode, Simon, and Bacroff had only been sent to concentration camps because they were gay (thereby suggesting that Simon was gay and had been sent to a concentration camp while not technically saying this). Two detailed German sources indicate that Simon was neither gay nor ever sent to a concentration camp.

Simon was a straight man with a fetish for wearing women’s clothes. The difference in treatment is enormous. The two gay men died in concentration camps. Simon served three sentences, at least two unrelated to cross-dressing, in ordinary German prisons and lived to the age of 92.

The February 12, 2010 issue of the German gay publication Lambda-Nachrichten contains a 4-page “portrait” of Simon, who was born Anton Simon in 1887. As a boy, Anton liked wearing women’s clothes. He married a woman in 1908; the marriage produced five children.

The case of Heinrich Bode shows that homosexuality, not “trans,” was the reason the Nazis persecuted and murdered some alleged trans women. Starting in 1927, he was on the police radar. The Nazis repeatedly put him on trial, threw him in jail and into concentration camps.

A reliable German source, linked next, refers to Bode as he mentions his male and apparent only first name, Heinrich. It reports that numerous arrests and incarcerations occurred because of a violation of paragraph 175, which criminalized male homosexuality.

Original German: https://stolpersteine-hamburg.de/index.php?&LANGUAGE=DE&MAIN_ID=7&p=31&BIO_ID=1861…

English Translation: https://stolpersteine-hamburg.de/en.php?&LANGUAGE=EN&MAIN_ID=7&p=31&BIO_ID=1861…

The source quotes the Wehrmacht soldiers who turned a women’s clothes-wearing Bode into the police on November 12th, 1939, verbatim. The statement indicates that his primary offense was perceived as being homosexual. Bode’s final criminal conviction in 1940 was based on five counts of violating paragraph 175 and 1 count of paragraph 360, “public nuisance.” The latter is the paragraph Nazi Germany used to criminalize male cross-dressing.

In a 2022 paper, UW Seattle historian Laurie Marhoefer (he/they), who self-describes as a “historian of queer and trans people in Weimar and Nazi Germany,” refers to Bode only as “H. Bode,” abbreviating the male first name on record, and calls him a “woman” and “she.” Marhoefer somewhat misleadingly reports that Bode “racked up convictions under §360 and §175.” The German source I discussed earlier mentions numerous convictions based on §175, the anti-male homosexuality paragraph, and only one under §360.

A Trans NGO commissioned Marhoefer’s paper as an expert statement in a German court case, the Vollbrecht case. Vollbrecht, a gender-critical student, had been accused of “denial of Nazi crimes” and had sued her critics. The official German Buchenwald Memorial site refers to Bode as Heinrich and “he” but also as a “trans person.” It summarizes his persecution by the state as follows: In 1927 first interviewed by police as a “transvestite” due to “homosexual contact with men.”

1933 first conviction under §175.
1936 second conviction under §175.
1939, again convicted under §175, sentenced to two years’ incarceration. After release from jail, he was sent to Buchenwald, where he was forced to labor in a quarry.
Bode died September 13th, 1943.

The historical evidence on the Bode case is limited. The first German source mentions, referring to the year 1933 and Bode’s first arrest, that “Due to the lack of surviving police records in Hamburg, it is difficult today to reconstruct the circumstances.” The source continues, “At the time, police in Altona and Hamburg considered Heinrich Bode “a young male prostitute,” and he had been given the condition to avoid “hom[osexual] bars.” The German source also reports, “In Mar. 1935, his public appearance in women’s clothes provided grounds for “protective custody” in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp as well.” Bode’s cross-dressing played a part in his persecution. “

That Bode was primarily persecuted and murdered by the Nazis for being gay, though, becomes apparent when you consider not just the laws under which he was convicted but also the punishments. §175 punished male homosexuality with up to 10 years imprisonment and hard labor. By contrast, §360 (“public nuisance”) violations were trivial in comparison, as the punishment was up to six weeks in prison or a fine of 150 marks.

A German court found in 2023 that claims of systematic persecution of trans people by the Nazis have no historical support and are an attempt by activists to alter the meaning of “Nazi crime.” and to appoint themselves final arbiters over what the term “Nazi crime” means, so that even asking them to produce historical evidence for their assertions of systematic trans persecution by the Nazis (as Vollbrecht had done) constituted “denial of Nazi crimes.”

The court found not only that Vollbrecht had a free speech right to ask for such evidence but that one cannot legally accuse her of a general denial of Nazi crimes, except trans activists inside their own filter bubbles. The court found that inside trans filter bubbles, accusations such as the ones made against Vollbrecht are understood in their proper context. The court ruled that trans activists engage so habitually in exaggeration and double speak that their accusations are meaningless and can continue to be made inside their filter bubbles where everyone knows what is being said is just activist hyperbole.

Alexander Zinn, a renowned German historian, argues in detail (and in German) that it is nonsense to speak of “queer” victims of the Holocaust, that the “queer” victims were almost exclusively gay men, and that activists are trying to “twist” history.