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Marlene Dietrich is detained at a train station in Paris in 1933 for violating the ban on women wearing trousers.

i hate this post circulating so much because it’s disinformation. not the addition of marlene’s contributions to jewish refugees, that part is true, but the first part of her being arrested for cross dressing. that picture is not of her being arrested or detained. she’s quite simply just getting off the train with her entourage (that’s her husband on her left!). she was never arrested for cross dressing, which didn’t really happen to women at this time in France. it was technically illegal except under special circumstances, but the law was already over a century old and not enforced by this time (technically it still exists, but it’s one of those dead, unenforceable ordinances that was just never formally stricken down).

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