Spoilers ahead for season two. Willkommen to Weimar, where anything goes. Initially a relatively inexpensive place to live β if you had foreign currency, gold bullion, or property β by the end of , the mark was almost worthless, and the middle class was practically wiped out. Prostitution was pervasive, as was a certain amount of hedonism. In addition to medical personnel, there were library and museum staff, cooks, cleaners, and a gardener. Many of the jobs were filled by gender-nonconforming inhabitants.
People could anonymously drop questions in a box outside and show up to weekly public meetings for answers. Initially, only cognoscenti attended lectures and daily teas. And that transvestite pass. Sex-reassignment surgery is nothing new. But those who did would likely have seen Dr. Ludwig Levy-Lenz.
He removed male genitals and fashioned primitive vaginas; did mastectomies and hysterectomies; and used radiation to zap facial hair, which, of course, had nasty side-effects.
Auf Wiedersehen, g ay Berlin. Transparent shows Hirschfeld at the villa when the Nazis ransacked the place in episode nine which would have been May , but he actually left Germany on a world tour in and never returned.
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