Kurt Hiller’s §175: Die Schmach des Jahrhunderts (§175: The Disgrace of the Century) was published by the Paul Steegemann Verlag in Hanover in 1922. Hiller (1885-1972) was a lawyer, pacifist, leftist political activist, and a gay Jewish man. He was a prominent agitator for homosexual rights in the 1920s and was a member of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee), although he did not fully subscribe to Hirschfeld’s theories of sexuality. In this publication, Hiller called for the abolishment of §175, the German law that criminalized male homosexual activity.
The dedication reads “TO YOU, and all humane people in Germany” (DIR und allen menschlichen Menschen in Deutschland).
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