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The men with the pink triangle : the true, life-and-death story of homosexuals in the Nazi death camps / Heinz Heger ; translated by David Fernbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heger, Heinz, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Männer mit dem rosa Winkel. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Kohout, Josef, 1915-1994.
- Kohout, Josef.
- Gay men--Germany--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Gay men--Germany--History--20th century.
- Gay people--Nazi persecution.
- Gay people.
- Gay prisoners--Germany--Biography.
- Gay prisoners.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Nazi concentration camp inmates--Germany--Biography.
- Nazi concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
- Persecution of gay men.
- Persecution of queer people.
- LGBTQ+ persecutions.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- LGBTQ+ autobiographies.
- Gay autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 141 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- New edition / foreword by Sarah Schulman.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from German.
- Summary:
- For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed "undesirable," suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality, now with a new foreword by Sarah Schulman, remains an essential contribution to gay history and our understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable and complex story of survival and identity.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Imprisoned as a "Degenerate"
- 2. Arrival at Sachsenhausen
- 3. A Camp of Torture and Toil
- 4. Flossenbiirg
- 5. The Polish Boys and the Gypsy Capo
- 6. Commander "Dustbag"
- 7. Burnings and Tortures
- 8. A Pink-Triangled Capo
- 9. A "Cure" for Homosexuality, and Air Raids
- 10. The End, and Home Again.
- Notes:
- Originally published in German in 1972. First published in English in 1980.
- Written by Heinz Heger from experiences described to him by Austrian Holocaust survivor Josef Kohout.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781642598797
- 1642598798
- 9781642598469
- 1642598461
- OCLC:
- 1368271933
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