We have not reached Weimar levels yet, you utter fools.

This is from Luigi Barzini’s memoir “The Europeans”: “| saw pimps offering anything to anybody: little boys, little girls, robust young men, libidinous women, animals. The story went the rounds that a male goose whose neck you cut at just the right ecstatic moment would give you the most delicious frisson of all - as it allowed you to enjoy sodomy, bestiality, homosexuality, necrophilia and sadism at one stroke. Gastronomy too, as one could eat the goose afterwards.”

Stephan Zweig writes:

“Bars, amusement parks, honky-tonks sprang up like mushrooms. Along the entire Kurfurstendamm powdered and rouged men sauntered and they were not all professionals; every high school boy wanted to earn some money and in the dimly lit bars one might see government officials and men of the world finance tenderly courting drunken sailors without any shame. Even the Rome of Suetonius had never known such orgies as the pervert balls of Berlin, where hundreds of men costumed as women and hundreds of women as men danced under the benevolent eyes of the police. In the collapse of all values a Kind of madness gained hold. Young girls bragged proudly about their perversion; to be sixteen and still under suspicion of virginity would have been a disgrace.”

These are the people that the SA were beating up. It got this far before anyone took action.