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- ... that in just one night, thousands of books on the experiences and medical care of transgender people in Nazi Germany were burned (pictured) for being "un-German"?
- ... that the ethical dilemma of killing baby Hitler has been compared to the trolley problem?
- ... that according to Lois N. Magner, Hildegard of Bingen's Physica is "probably the first book by a female author to discuss the elements and the therapeutic virtues of plants, animals, and metals"?
- ... that Herwig Gössl rejected a reform document on the Catholic theology of sexuality prepared by the Synodal Way, but later welcomed the church's decision to bless homosexual couples?
- ... that shortly after being liberated from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1945, Holocaust survivor Karl Loewenstein was sent to Pankrác Prison?
- ... that a Holocaust memoir translated in 2023 described prisoners so dehumanized by the Nazis that they introduced themselves in past tense, as in "My name was ..."?
- ... that Tilmann Köhler directed Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 2023 with playful "serious games" in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind"?
- ... that Karsten Januschke's conducting of Offenbach's Die Banditen was described as producing a "lean, dry, delicate" sound with an ensemble of 22 soloists, including 11 tenors?