Gays the Holot
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TRIANGL AND TRIBULATNS: THE GAY APPROPRIATN OF NAZI SYMBOLS
Gays the Holot. - Pierre Seel, om "I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror". Before the Nazi era, Berl had been home to a vibrant gay and lbian culture.
At the ncln of World War II, the Alli me upon Nazi ncentratn mps and other s of atrocy to fd thoands upon thoands of people – sufferg terribly, emaciated, near ath – whom the SS had rcerated bee they were Jewish, Roma or Sti, dissentg Lutheran and Catholic Clergy, mentally or physilly disabled, homosexuals, polil dissints… the list of groups which offend Adolf Hler was a long one. While great effort was ma to repatriate most victims of Nazi btaly, the homosexual survivors were not “liberated.
” At the remendatn of Brish and Amerin lawyers, the men who had been arrted unr Germany’s anti-homosexual ‘Paragraph 175’ statute – intified by the pk triangl many were forced to wear – were to be re-imprisoned. The enforcement of anti-homosexualy laws across the U. And Europe, meant that many gay survivors of Nazism faced ntued persecutn, arrt, and tentn long after Hler was feated.