How the Nazis stroyed the first gay rights movement

Contents:

• HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS
• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• GAY HLER
• THE HORRIFIC NAZI TREATMENT OF GAYS — THE SAD STORY OF PK MEN“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS”PETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·JUL 22, 2021--4SHAREGAY PRISONERS A NAZI NCENTRATN MP, WEARG A PK TRIANGLE (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS CEL AND DISGTG. YET, THERE WAS A STE OF PRISONERS WHO WERE NSIRED THE LOWT OF THE LOW BY THE MP GUARDS AND EVEN BY THE FELLOW PRISONERS — GAY MEN.THE TREATMENT OF THE GAYS THE NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS TLY HORRIFIC. GAY MEN WERE ED FOR MEDIL EXPERIMENTS AND AS SHOOTG TARGETS. THE GUARDS WOULD AIM FOR THE PK TRIANGL ON THEIR CHTS THAT SYMBOLIZED THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.THEY WERE TORTURED, EXPERIMENTED ON, AND RIDICULED. THEY WERE BEATEN TO ATH BY THEIR FELLOW PRISONERS. THEY RECEIVED THE MOST DANGERO TASK THE MP’S STONE QUARRI AND FACTORI.“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS.”— PIERRE SEEL, A GAY HOLOT SURVIVORTHE NOTOR PARAGRAPH 175
• ‘GAY HLER’ TEXAS LAWMAKER KYLE BIERMAN INTRODUC BILL AIMED AT SECEDG OM THE UNN
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
• WHY THE MYTH OF THE “GAY NAZI” IS BACK CIRCULATN

HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS

Eyewns acunts om Hler's former lovers, and historil documents that for the first time illumate mours that have circulated for over half a century, are disclosed Hler's Secret: The Double Life of a Dictator rpected German historian Lothar Machtan even claims his book that Hler orred the aths of several high-rankg Nazis to prevent the secret of his homosexualy om Röhm, the lear of Hler's Sturm Abteilung or Storm Troopers, tried to blackmail Hler by threateng to reveal his sexualy. Acrdg to Erich Ebermeier, a lawyer and wrer who viewed Hler's ary fil years later: 'Dpe his bravery towards the enemy, bee of his homosexual activy he lost out on a promotn to non-missned officer. Machtan says that Hler was particularly drawn to Rudolf Hs, his puty, who was known party circl as 'black Emma' and wh whom he had spent months Landsberg, then, did the Nazis persecute homosexuals, sendg hundreds of thoands of them to their aths labour mps and the gas chambers?

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

As the dictator of Nazi Germany, he orred the Holot and helped start World War II, which led to the ath of over 70 ln people ’s love life was the reflectn of his polics — full of sufferg, manipulatn, and ’s probable homosexualyAdolf Hler (left) wh his chffr Juli Schreck (right) (Image:)In his early adult life, Adolf Hler practiced homosexual relatnships. Schreck received a state funeral and Hler himself livered the Nazi opponents ed the wispread homosexualy among the Nazi lears to smear their public Nazi party was lled “The Brotherhood of Poofs. 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).

GAY HLER

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). He was received that day wh meras, bouquets of flowers, and a greetg om the openly gay former mayor of Berl, Kls seven s earlier, Brazda survived a spell Buchenwald, the ncentratn mp to which he was sent havg twice been arrted for vlatg Paragraph 175, the German law prohibg male homosexual activy.

THE HORRIFIC NAZI TREATMENT OF GAYS — THE SAD STORY OF PK MEN“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS”PETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·5 M READ·JUL 22, 2021--4SHAREGAY PRISONERS A NAZI NCENTRATN MP, WEARG A PK TRIANGLE (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS CEL AND DISGTG. YET, THERE WAS A STE OF PRISONERS WHO WERE NSIRED THE LOWT OF THE LOW BY THE MP GUARDS AND EVEN BY THE FELLOW PRISONERS — GAY MEN.THE TREATMENT OF THE GAYS THE NAZI NCENTRATN MPS WAS TLY HORRIFIC. GAY MEN WERE ED FOR MEDIL EXPERIMENTS AND AS SHOOTG TARGETS. THE GUARDS WOULD AIM FOR THE PK TRIANGL ON THEIR CHTS THAT SYMBOLIZED THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.THEY WERE TORTURED, EXPERIMENTED ON, AND RIDICULED. THEY WERE BEATEN TO ATH BY THEIR FELLOW PRISONERS. THEY RECEIVED THE MOST DANGERO TASK THE MP’S STONE QUARRI AND FACTORI.“THE NAZIS STUCK 25 CENTIMETERS OF WOOD UP MY ASS.”— PIERRE SEEL, A GAY HOLOT SURVIVORTHE NOTOR PARAGRAPH 175

Published 2016, Whisnant’s book subverts the notn that the only queer people targeted durg the Third Reich were gay men, suggtg stead that the Nazi party’s broar terpretatn of Paragraph 175 meant that a small portn of terned dividuals were what we today would ll genr-nonnformg or trans. What’s more, Whisnant pots out that while lbian women were not necsarily arrted bee of their sexualy, that is neher to say that some lbian women did not end up ncentratn mps, nor that the homophobia of the time didn’t impact them more broadly.

” And bis the German public’s disda for the trans-posive physician, signs of other cracks the fa of early Berl’s tolerance beg to show when nsirg the number of gay magaz circulatg at the time.

”Nazi-era propaganda, like this 1933 electn poster, often prented an ialized, homoerotic-tged view of ArchiveWhatever illn of acceptance queer members of the Nazi party might have felt the early 1930s vanished the aftermath of a pivotal event lled The Night of the Long Kniv. Telligence report claims Hler was 'both homosexual and heterosexual'Report om 1943 mentns Vienna hostel where Hler lived om 1910 to 1913It claims had a reputatn as a place where men met for 'homosexual pleasur'The report also claims Hler was sexually attracted to his puty Rudolf Hs Published: 12:20 BST, 9 October 2018 | Updated: 13:36 BST, 9 October 2018. Adolf Hler had a 'homosexual streak' and spent several years livg a gay hostel Atria, acrdg to a CIA profile on the Nazi lear wrten durg World War 1943 telligence report was piled for then-print Frankl D.

‘GAY HLER’ TEXAS LAWMAKER KYLE BIERMAN INTRODUC BILL AIMED AT SECEDG OM THE UNN

Roosevelt, and stat that Hler was 'both homosexual and heterosexual' 70-page report also claims Adolf Hler was 'sexually attracted' to his puty Fuhrer, Rudolf Hs, who - says - was a known transvte. Telligence claims Nazi lear Adolf Hler was 'both homosexual and heterosexual'The report was llated by anthropologist Henry Field, a hand-picked member of the Whe Hoe's special telligence un tasked wh trawlg through any rmatn he uld fd about German top brass, cludg Hler rultg 'bgraphil sketch' of Hler, verg everythg om his childhood and tn to diet, favoure mic and 'speech-makg technique' also clus an analysis of Hler's sexualy and touch on his time Atria as a stgglg pater his early has long been known that Hler lived at a men's hostel on Melmannstrasse Birgten, Vienna om 1910 to 1913.

'Gay hostel': It has long been known that Hler spent three years at this men's hostel Birgten, Vienna his early 20s, which acrdg to the file had 'a reputatn of beg a place where elrly men went search of young men for homosexual pleasur'The Office of Strategic Servic fil, a precsor of the morn CIA, then claims the hostel had 'the reputatn of beg a place where elrly men went search of young men for homosexual pleasur' rmatn about Hler's sexualy was provid by a Ernst Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, a German-Amerin who had been a close iend and nfidant of Hler's durg the 1920s and eventually fell out of favour wh Hler and the Nazi learship, and fled to Bra after which he fected to the U.

Acrdg to the report this belief was strengthened upon learng that 'Hs's nickname among homosexual members of the party was "Frale Anna" and that was notor that he had attend balls drsed female attire' is then scribed as a 'sado-masochistic type of man wh possibly even a homosexual streak him. Hler's legacy liv on primarily through his name, which has been noted as unual for today's standards (though the word 'gay' was ed terchangeably wh 'happy' at the time of his birth and the name 'Hler' did not hold the same nnotatns as did followg World War II).

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

“The Nazis stuck 25 centimeters of wood up my ass”Gay prisoners a Nazi ncentratn mp, wearg a pk triangle (Image: Wikimedia Commons)The treatment of prisoners Nazi ncentratn mps was cel and disgtg. Yet, there was a ste of prisoners who were nsired the lowt of the low by the mp guards and even by the fellow prisoners — gay treatment of the gays the Nazi ncentratn mps was tly horrific. ”— Pierre Seel, a gay Holot survivorThe notor Paragraph 175Graphs wh the number of nvictns due to Paragraph 175 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)In 1871, the law known as Paragraph 175 me to force the German Empire.

This week, that chatter transformed to somethg ncrete—and nearly At, Republin Kyle Biermann of the Texas Hoe of Reprentativ, prevly bt known for drsg up as “gay Hler, ” beme the first Amerin legislator nearly a century and only the send sce the Civil War to file a formal bill llg for state-level secsn om the Uned the “Texas Inpennce Referendum Act, ” his bill would allow Texans to vote this November on a referendum “on the qutn of whether this state should leave the Uned Stat of Ameri and tablish an pennt republic. 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. In 2017, Germany’s Cabet approved a bill that would expunge the nvictns of tens of thoands of German men for “homosexual acts” unr that untry’s anti-gay law known as “Paragraph 175.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Partly drivg this new era of tolerance were the doctors and scientists who started lookg at homosexualy and “transvtism” (a word of that era that enpassed transgenr people) as a natural characteristic wh which some were born, and not a “rangement. Memorial "to the gay and lbian victims of Natnal Socialism" Cologne: The scriptn on the left si of the monument (to the viewer's right om the angle picted) reads "Totgchlagen – Totgchwiegen" ("Stck Dead – Hhed Up").

[1] It is unclear how many of the 5, 000 to 15, 000 eventually perished the mps, but leadg scholar Rüdiger Ltmann believ that the ath rate of homosexuals ncentratn mps may have been as high as 60%. After the war, the treatment of homosexuals ncentratn mps went unacknowledged by most untri, and some men were even re-arrted and imprisoned based on evince found durg the Nazi years.

In late Febary 1933, as the moratg fluence of Ernst Röhm weakened, the Nazi Party lnched s purge of homosexual (gay, lbian, and bisexual; then known as homophile) clubs Berl, outlawed sex publitns, and banned anized gay groups. Durg the Night of the Long Kniv 1934, a purge of those whom Hler emed threats to his power took place, he had Röhm murred and ed Röhm's homosexualy as a jtifitn to supprs outrage wh the ranks of the SA. Such "anti-homosexual" laws were wispread throughout the wtern world until the 1960s and 1970s, so many gay men did not feel safe to e forward wh their stori until the 1970s when many so-lled "sodomy laws" were repealed.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

[12] Reparatns and state pensns available to other groups were refed to gay men, who were still classified as crimals — the 1935 versn of Paragraph 175 remaed force Wt Germany until 1969 when the Bunstag voted to return to the pre-1935 versn.

It was not until the 1970s and 1980s that there was some mastream exploratn of the theme, wh Holot survivors wrg their memoirs, plays such as Bent, and more historil rearch and documentari beg published about the Nazis' homophobia and their stctn of the German gay-rights movement. 5 ln Jews, Roma, Pol, Rsians and prisoners of var other natnali, and homosexuals, were murred, is not only a major ocsn for European cizens to remember and nmn the enormo horror and tragedy of the Holot, but also for addrsg the disturbg rise anti-Semism, and pecially anti-Semic cints, Europe, and for learng anew the wir lsons about the dangers of victimisg people on the basis of race, ethnic orig, relign, social classifitn, polics or sexual orientatn.... Arisg om the domant disurse of the Jewish sufferg durg the years of Nazi domatn, and buildg on the divergence of differential victimhoods brought to light by studi of the Roma and the mentally ill, who suffered massively unr the genics programs of the Third Reich, the ia of a “Gay Holot” was first explored the early 1970s.

WHY THE MYTH OF THE “GAY NAZI” IS BACK CIRCULATN

The bate on the “Gay Holot” is therefore a highly load bate which would rult an ternatnal acknowledgement of state sponsored homophobia as a precursor to genoci should the proponents of the “Gay Holot” succeed. [18] It is, however, what Michel-Rolph Trouillot terms “an age when llective apologi are beg creasgly mon”[19] as well as a time when the tablished Holot disurse has settled and legimized claims of the Jewish, Roma and mentally ill victims of Nazi persecutn so would seem an appropriate time to at least brg attentn to the bate of the Gay Holot, even if the issue is not to be settled.

A lack of rearch means that there is relatively ltle data on the dispersn of gay men throughout the mps however Hez Heger suggts his book The Men wh the Pk Triangle that they were subjected to harsher labor than smaller targeted groups, such as the polil prisoners, and furthermore suffered a much higher mortaly rate. The notn of exclivy however is challenged by the existence of siar forc workg agast different social and ethnic groups such as homosexuals and the Roma, which rulted the victimizatn and systematic stctn of homosexual liv and liftyl, as well as those of the Roma. ”[23] While the foc of the early revisns was not necsarily to terme the Nazi policy on homosexuals as genocidal, they began a current towards legimizg the victimizatn of homosexuals unr the regime, a topic that had not been addrsed until the 1970s.

[23] Central to the studi was the notn that statistilly speakg, homosexuals suffered greater loss than many of the smaller mori unr Nazi persecutn such as the Jehovah’s Wns and wh the mps experienced harsher treatments and ostracizatn as well as executn at the hands of firg squads and the gas chambers.