I think you’re either ignorant of what every historian already knows about Weimar Germany or you’re just being dishonest because you want to “debunk a pol meme.”
Allow me to educate you.
The existence of child prostitution in Berlin wouldn't establish that it is tolerated by Berlin society anymore than the existence of murder in Mobil, Alabama proves that people have free reign to murder in Alabama. The source you are relying on is not exactly the work of a historian, but even taking it on its own terms, you've made quite the leap by arguing that using pharmacies and pharmaceutical code as a front to offer child prostitutes proves high prevalence or broad social tolerance. The fact that codes have to be used in fact argues against the latter point and it says nothing about the former.
If you want to quote historians on the prevalence and acceptance of child prostitution in Wiemar Germany, then do so.
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant described throngs of child prostitutes outside the doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants. He adds: “Most of them—the night clubs and vice resorts—were owned and managed by Jews. And it was the Jews among the promoters of this trade who were remembered in after years.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bryant#1940s
So by "historians" you mean a Nazi friendly book published by a then popular, but deeply anti-semitic British historian in 1940 that promoted the idea of Jews as child prostitute drivers that you are citing without any underlying source or documentation? Cool.
Here's some other things he said about Jews of the era to add to your "what historians know..."
The Jews, he wrote, had taken advantage, of Germany's postwar weakness and 'since the sun does not shine often on their race, they made hay as fast as they could'. In this British equivalent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Bryant argued that Jewish control of German wealth and power 'soon lost all relation to their numbers'. All government ministries had their quotas of Jews. The Reichsbank and the large private banks were 'practically controlled' by them. So were the press, the arts and the publishing trade. According to Bryant, 'a telephone conversation between three Jews in ministerial offices' could close down any newspaper in Germany, and this power was 'frequently used'. Furthermore, authorship in Germany 'almost seemed to have become a kind of Hebrew monopoly'.
As this Jewish stranglehold over German national life developed, Gentiles were excluded from privileged occupations. Bryant argued that 'at this time it was not the Aryans who exercise racial discrimination'. The Germans had somehow to rescue their superior indigenous culture from an alien hand. Bryant believed Jews exhibited an 'oriental and passionate enjoyment of the sensuous delight of the hour', they felt nothing but contempt for 'authority and the household gods of more pampered races . . . Their inherited instinct was to skim the cream rather than to waste vain time and effort in making enduring things,' he continued. Jews were 'lovers of the flamboyant and the arts of advertisement'. They sneered at the Teutonic virtues of discipline, hard work, thoroughness and craftsmanship. Still claiming a historian's objectivity, Bryant then wrote of 'the migrant type — "Asiatic hoards on the sands of the Mark of Brandenburg" ' who seemed 'with all the invincible vitality and irresponsible opportunism of their race to be making of a broken nation their wash-pot'.
Of the German Jews in particular, probably the most cultivated and assimilated in Europe, Bryant wrote: 'They were arrogant, they were vulgar, and they were vicious.' They made films glorifying 'financial crooks, criminals and prostitutes'. Bryant reported that Jews dominated 'the innumerable nightspots and vice resorts which mocked the squalid poverty of the German capital'. Innocent Christian Germans were introduced to 'a bewildering degree of sexual promiscuity . . . At private parties mattresses were strewn about and petting was only the beginning.' This took place in literally hundreds of 'cabarets, pleasure resorts and the like . . . most of them owned and managed by Jews'. Every perversion, according to Bryant, was 'exploited and stimulated by Jewish caterers who, while seldom sharing such tastes, did not hesitate to turn them to their profit'. In these chapters, Bryant drew a picture of German life between the wars from which his readers were encouraged to sympathise with the Nazis and merely shrug when, at the end of this vicious tirade, he explained that in redressing the balance against the Jews it was an unfortunate German characteristic `to carry things to extremes'.
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/ ... reme-toadySeems legit. Anyway, if you got actual sources, feel free to offer them.
