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THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE
A Danish Nazi, SS Dr Carl Vær, nducted medil experiments on gay ncentratn mp prisoners. Instead, wh Danish and Brish lln, he was able to pe to Argenta, where he lived openly and ntued his rearch to methods for the eraditn of homosexualy. 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. This prompted him to approach the Nazis, who were well known for their hatred of gay people and their bid to “elimate the perverted world of the homosexual”. 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.