Magnus Hirschfeld’s (1868-1935) Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin was a first point of attack for Nazi students and soldiers. There is some critical consensus that it was the Institute’s association, via its founder, with both homosexuality and Jewishness, that made it a target so early on in the Nazi attack against books. Where most of the existing studies of these events have focused in one way or the other on the losses incurred in the act of destruction, this chapter turns attention to the remains: the documents and objects which survived the attack on the Institute. It shows that the materiality of the books and papers influenced how they were handled, and considers why and how some objects –notably a collection of questionnaires and a bronze statue – survived the events
