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===Nazis destroy the Institute for Sex Research===
Often, liberal deniers of the National Socialist–sexual degeneracy connection argue that the Nazis destroyed the Institute for Sex Research because they were "anti-deviancy." However, a firsthand account from the Institute's assistant director indicated otherwise, explaining that the organization compiled incriminating and otherwise embarrassing records of Nazi sexual immorality, which Hitler sought to eradicate evidence of:<ref>Carlson, Allan C. (2007). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Conjugal_America/ktwzDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=samuel+igra&pg=PT66&printsec=frontcover Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved October 8, 2023.</ref>
{{cquote|We... had a great many Nazis under treatment at the Institute... We knew too much. It would be against medical principles to provide a list of the Nazi leaders and their perversions [but]...not ten percent of the men who, in 1933, took the fate of Germany into their hands were sexually normal....[W]e possessed about forty thousand confessions and biographical records.|||Ludwig Lenz, assistant director of the Institute for Sex Research}}