Drawing on documents which were kept in the East German State archives until reunification in 1990, this is a history of the Nazis' attitude toward, and treatment of, homosexuals. It demonstrates that even before the National Socialists took power, the eradication of homosexuals was one of their declared aims. The discrimination took an extreme form, including intimidation, castration, incarceration and extermination in concentration camps. It also details the experience of lesbians, who were not legally recognized and therefore afforded no protection. Many were stigmatized as "asocial" and sent to concentration camps where they were forced to work as prostitutes.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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register of persons, 40 documents, photographs
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 135 mm
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978-0-304-32956-4 (9780304329564)
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Persecution, "re-education" or "eradication" of male homosexuals between 1933 and 1945, Gunter Grau; the position of lesbian women in the Nazi period, Claudia Schoppmann. Part 1 Public discrimination against homosexual men. Part 2 Tightening up the law from September 1935. Part 3 The stepping up of prosecutions from 1936. Part 4 Intensified persecution after 1939. Part 5 Castration as an instrument of repression. Part 6 Homosexual men in concentration camps - the example of Buchenwald. Appendix.
