Germany / Austria
Sexologist Albert Moll died September 23, 1939, the same day as Sigmund Freud.
Vasectomies Endocrinologist Eugen Steinach, who had experimented with the transplantation of sex glands, and ushers, and was director of the Biological Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, died in 1944.
Kurt Warnekros, obstetrician-gynecologist, director of the Clinic for Women of Dresden, who had a uterus and ovaries transplanted into transgender pioneer, Lili Elbe in 1930, retained the treatment of patients with the Jews until 1944, but not forced sterilizations .His clinic was destroyed in air raids on Dresden in February 1945.
Erwin Gohrbandt of Universitätsmedizin Charité, Berlin, who had genital surgery on Dorchen Richter and Lili Elbe, became a general in the Luftwaffe. He also participated in the experiments of hyperthermia in the concentration camp at Dachau, and wrote the results in a major medical journal. In February 1945, he received the Knight's Cross of Kriegsverdienstkeuzes on the personal authority of Hitler.
Testosterone was first isolated from a bull in 1935. Karoly G.David Ernst Laqueur, and colleagues isolated the crystalline testosterone from the testes and published the results. Within months, groups led by Johann Butenandt and G. Hanisch (funded by Schering Corp., Berlin), and Leopold Ruzicka and A. Wettstein of Ciba, independently of each other, developed synthetic methods for the preparation of testosterone. The production of synthetic testosterone from the success of Butenandt and Ruzicka won them the 1939 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
In February 1942, an SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer in full uniform, with silver ribbons and decorations, together with a young woman in elegant evening gown shimmering, revealing a snow white shoulder were arrested in a box at the Hamburg opera, following an information that the lady was a young man of 19 years, a soldier of the Waffen-SS and on leave in Hamburg. His father, owner of a major nightclub on the Reeperbahn. They were taken directly to concentration camp Flossenburg in Bavaria, and locked in separate single cells. They remained in solitary confinement until the camp was liberated in April 1945....
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