The Nazi war on gay people: Survivors speak out | Peter Tatchell Foundatn

Contents:

• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE
• FROM GAY NAZIS TO 'WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER': A CENTURY OF ARGUG ABOUT GAY PRI
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
• GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE
• THE NAZI WAR ON GAY PEOPLE: SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

'” She go further, wonrg if “the purge of the SA and the killg of Röhm reprented the leral objective rrelative for the supprsn and reprsn of the homosexual sir their own Nazism?

Around 15, 000 gay people were sent to ncentratn mps, where some were experimented upon bizarre efforts to fd a “cure” for sexual orientatn, a forhadowg of Amerin psychologil and later fundamentalist efforts to try the same thg. Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos). Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175).

Sex and the Weimar Republic exam the rise of sexual tolerance through the bat which surround "immoral" sexualy: obsceny, male homosexualy, lbianism, transgenr inty, heterosexual promiscuy, and prostutn. They were om the Gay Ex-Servic Associatn, and they rried a wreath dited to ‘all brothers and sisters who died durg the wars’—but they would never get to lay at the shre.

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

“There were thoands of ex-servicemen who were mp, I thk I went through 300 of them myself, ” he told the magaze, a py of which is prerved by the Atralian Lbian and Gay Archiv. “The irony, of urse, was that they end up an all-male environment wh limed opportuny for female pany – the potential for homo-sex had never been greater, ” Smaal says. “It was amazg the number of gay people the POW mp, ” the Atralian serviceman told Outrage, “well not so much gay as bisexual – bee they uldn’t get a woman they’d have a man.

The gay Jewish doctor – who was later exiled by the Nazis – wrote of how German soldiers would risk severe reprimand to sneak off to the lols’ ho occupied France to have sex.

Rearch by Smaal and his lleague, renowned Atralian LGBT+ historian Graham Willett, found that the US reported to Atralia that they had disvered a large number of servicemen New Guea havg gay sex – and that Atralians were volved.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

For a time, Hirschfeld and his alli sought support for their efforts om the Soviet Unn, but their sympathy for that untry cled when creasg numbers of Soviet homosexuals began to be mted, as a rult of a cree by Stal, to mental hospals. Hatred of homosexuals was termed by both party iology and the personal obssns of the lears, and pecially of Herich Himmler, the ma origator of the plan to extermate homosexuals. Mosse observ his book Natnalism and Sexualy, the natnalist and Nazi typology prented Jews and homosexuals a highly siar way, treatg them as selfish, els, and sexually aggrsive and satiable to the gree that they uld not ntrol their urg.

One man Germany, however was both the chief of staff of the SA [“storm troopers”] and gay; ed, he was so sufferably gay that he did not even bother to nceal the fact.

He went on to state that there were two ln registered members of homosexual clubs; “experts” on homosexualy timated that there were two to four ln homosexuals Germany. The rpected profsors who disver the rps the peat bogs are surely unaware that, nety s out of a hundred, they are lookg at homosexuals who were drowned there their clothg and all the rt.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

Gtapo boss Rudolf Diels relled a nversatn which Hler exprsed the fear that homosexuals holdg high office uld bee subordate purely for reason of their sexual orientatn.

In his tertg work Die Verolgung r Homosexuellen im Drten Reich, Wolfgang Harthser stat that the Third Reich vtigated 3, 261 persons on charg of homosexualy om 1931 to 1934. “The fate of the homosexuals is to bee fodr for the ncentratn mps, ” a judge stated 1935 when sentencg a man who had been watchg a uple havg sex the park, and admted unr terrogatn that he had been observg only the male partner.

The accatns reached their apogee 1937, when Reich Propaganda Mister Josef Goebbels proclaimed durg a rad broadst that “the sacristy has bee a borllo, and monasteri are plac for the growth of abject homosexualy.

THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE

In orr to rid themselv of a rival, Himmler and Goerg acted together and, as when Roehm had been elimated, prented a police dossier and wns to support the charge of homosexual practic agast von Frsch. While the Nazis attempted to root out the problem of homosexualy entirely Germany, they did not attach mensurate importance to the issue the untri that they occupied durg the Send World War, sce Himmler believed that homosexualy sapped the vigor of nquered natns. Msoli’s views on sexual matters were not particularly strict, and homosexuals were never persecuted his Italy to the same gree as Germany or other occupied untri.

FROM GAY NAZIS TO 'WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER': A CENTURY OF ARGUG ABOUT GAY PRI

Between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gays died the mps, although this figure might have been much higher sce homosexuals, as opposed to Jews and Roma, uld easily nceal their otherns. As Raimund Schnabel wr his study of Dach, “Those whose behavr uld be lled perverted were seldom found among the homosexuals; neverthels, there were some syphants and dsters. To this day, no fancial pensatn has been paid to the victims of Nazi homosexual polici, spe the fact that the German ernment offered pensatn to victims of Jewish ethnicy, polil prisoners, and other groups that survived the ncentratn mps.

Many people ny that the homosexuals have a right to any such pensatn, statg that victims wh an alternative sexual orientatn were jtly imprisoned, and “had no one but themselv to blame. Above all, however, shame and the fear of beg stigmatized motivated homosexuals to change not only their addrs but everythg else that uld have been associated wh their earlier liv. The attempts that homosexuals ma to nceal their pasts the mps bed wh the attus prevailg postwar Europe to make difficult for rearchers to fd many of those who had been sentenced unr Article 175.

”Tens of thoands of ptured soldiers, polil prisoners and people brand socially unsirable by the Nazis, cludg Roma and homosexuals, were held mps alongsi the lns of Jews who died the Holot.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

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GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Vær was a Copenhagen doctor who, realisg the opportuni offered by the homophobic polici of the Third Reich, joed the Nazi party and enlisted the SS to pursue his rearch to “cure” gay rearch was nducted on the personal thory of Herich Himmler.

The Gtapo chief mand the “extermatn of abnormal existence … the homosexual mt be entirely elimated” mpaign to expose Vær only took off 1998, when I wrote to the then Danish prime mister, Poul Rasmsen, llg for an quiry to Vær’s wartime activi.

GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE

Vær met the chief Nazi doctor, Reichsarzt-SS Ernst Grawz, who proposed that he rearch the treatment of homosexualy on behalf of the led to Vær operatg on gay prisoners Buchenwald ncentratn mp, sertg artificial hormone glands their gros. Dpe this predictn, Vær appears to have nvced the Brish and Danish thori that his hormone treatments to turn gay men heterosexual were important, worthy scientific November 1945, rponse to Vær’s claim that he was sufferg om a ser heart ndn, Hemgway thorised his transfer to a Copenhagen hospal.

They ma no attempt to prosecute him for war crim, possibly bee they regard his rearch to “cure” homosexualy as legimate, even Danish thori have still not explaed why Vær and his Danish protectors were shield om prosecutn and why took my public challenge to force them to open the Vær fil. ”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U.

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament. Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said.

THE NAZI WAR ON GAY PEOPLE: SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT

“From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

For more than 100 years, polil groups have been fightg on behalf of same-sex sir, genr nonnformy and transn om one genr to the other – although the terms “gay rights” and “trans rights” are relatively recent the late 1800s, a movement that lled self “homosexual emancipatn” formed Germany. Yet, the historil rerd shows that a small number of men quietly belonged to both the homosexual emancipatn movement and the Nazi Party, though they were not open about their sexualy wh the party. The small factn of gay fascists ld erotic relatnships between manly, “Aryan” soldier typ while loathg femists, Jews and you might image, the different mps wh the homosexual emancipatn movement did not agree on lots of thgs.