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Hidden holocaust? : gay and lesbian persecution in Germany, 1933-45 / edited by Günter Grau ; with a contribution by Claudia Schoppmann ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people--Nazi persecution.
- Gay people.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- Nazi concentration camps--Germany.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- National socialism.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 308 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, ©1995.
- Contents:
- List of documents
- Register of persons
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Persecution, "re-education" or "eradication" of male homosexuals between 1933 and 1945 : consequences of the eugenic concept of assured reproduction / Günter Gray
- The position of lesbian women in the Nazi period / Claudia Schoppmann
- pt. 1. Public discrimination against homosexual men : particular actions after 1933
- a. Disputes about whether homosexuality should be a criminal office
- b. Police raids, bans and arrests : 1933 to 1935
- pt. 2. Tightening up the law from September 1935
- a. The National Socialist revision of Section 175 of the Penal Code
- b. Discussions concerning the prosecution of lesbians
- pt. 3. The stepping up of prosecutions from 1936
- a. Nation-wide registration of homosexual men
- b. The Reich Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion
- and instrument of practical implementation
- c. The consequences
- pt. 4. Intensified persecution after 1939
- a. "Ruthless severity" in the Wehrmacht
- b. The death penalty for homosexuals in the SS and police
- c. Action in the occupied territories
- Austria
- The "Protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia
- Poland
- Netherlands
- Deportations from Alsace to France
- d. Combating "homosexual transgressions" in the Hitler Youth
- pt. 5. Castration as an instrument of repression
- pt. 6. Homosexual men in concentration camps: the example of Buchenwald
- a. Pink-triangles prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp
- b. Experiments in "reversal of hormonal polarity" at Buchenwald
- Appendix
- Sources of the illustrations
- Sources of the documents
- Index.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Homosexualität in der NS-Zeit : Dokumente einer Diskriminierung und Verfolgung.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781315073880 (electronic bk.)
- 1315073889 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90101345649
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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