Until the post-war change in government no such freedom prevailed. In 1917 Sophie Hoechstetter’s _Selbstanzeige: Die letzte Flamme_[22] had to be printed privately. When it was attacked by a reviewer in _Der Tag_, the author defended the criticized “urnische Beanlagt” as an essential stage in the self-comprehension which was the theme of the whole novel. She also offered to supply the volume gratis to any interested reader, an indication that it had been excluded from public sale. With 1918, however, the ban was relaxed, and during the 1920s Germany shared with the rest of the western world a period of sexual freedom which ended only with the growing influence of Hitler in the 1930s. Even so, post-war sentiment in the English-speaking countries made German material unwelcome there, and the homosexual novels and magazines which abounded in Germany for a decade gained little circulation abroad. With Hitler’s ascendancy these titles were so soon obliterated that it is difficult now to find more than the mere record in German trade bibliographies of their original publication. This is especially true because in 1921 Hirschfeld’s _Jahrbuch_ (by then a _Vierteljahrsschrift_) ceased publication. All efforts of the Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee for repeal of the anti-homosexual Paragraph 175 of the Prussian criminal code had failed, and the organization was disheartened by the failure. Moreover, the fields of history and biography had been well covered in factual articles during the twenty-two years of the journal’s existence. And as for its function of reporting current homosexual belles-lettres, that was abandoned even before its own death because such literature was regularly reviewed in ‘other journals,’ (e.g., _Die Freundin_, _Die Freundschaft_, _Freundschaft und Freiheit_—later _Eros_—_Junggesellen: mit den Beiblättern “Frauenliebe,”_ and _Transvestit_.) These are now almost completely lost, so that even descriptive notes on the literature in question are not accessible today. Post-War Gleanings