“Did she even read history?”
I would allow that perhaps Cyndi Lauper has gleaned some facts from history, just interpreted the facts wrongly and this has led her to some faulty conclusions. Yeah, something about Hitler was involved, but it was in SUPPORT of changing persons who had a nonconforming image of themselves, but as Dr. Josef Mengele demonstrated, some “volunteers” for various kinds of transformative medical treatment could yield surprising results. Of course, Dr. Mengele had a prison population to work with, and the present-day mutilators of children have to rely on guile and lulling the suspicions of the susceptible for a supply of lab rats for their experimentation.