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

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS ADVOT ARE NAZI 'HOMOFASCISTS' WHO WILL KILL CHRISTIANS, RICK WIL CLAIMS
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• OPN: GAY HOLOT VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS ARE OFTEN FOTTEN – WE NEED TO TELL THEIR STORI
• GAY NAZIS MYTH
• IN 'GREAT FREEDOM,' A MAN IS EED OM THE NAZIS, AND RE-IMPRISONED FOR BEG GAY
• THE NAZI WAR ON GAY PEOPLE: SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT
• GAY HOLOT
• THE PECULIAR TTH ABOUT THE GAY NAZI & THE HOLY GRAIL
• GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• SERI: GAY MEN AND LBIANS UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - ID CARDS

GAY RIGHTS ADVOT ARE NAZI 'HOMOFASCISTS' WHO WILL KILL CHRISTIANS, RICK WIL CLAIMS

Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights advot are part of a " radil homosexual movement" that mirrors elements of Nazi Germany, Rick Wil is claimg.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

As Right Wg Watch is reportg, the TNews host blasted the LGBT muny a heated broadst wh Pastor Jeff Allen, who has prevly evoked Nazi imagery while nmng gay rights. " Listen to d of the broadst, urty of Right Wg Watch, below: Wil went on to note, "It wasn’t this thg about an Aryan race of whe people, blue-eyed, blon-haired, whe people, Hler was tryg to create a race of super gay male soldiers...

"Many [LGBT rights advot] really do nsole themselv wh fantasi of their own Kristallnacht, which Christians are phemistilly 'taken out of the way' as part of the 'gay'-stapo’s 'fal solutn' to the 'Christian problem, '"Allen wrote an Op-Ed for Liberty Counsel attorney Matt Barber's webse Barbwire. A man  make-up and pearls nmng transgenr people may seem untertuive, but Milo Yiannopoulos is hardly the first gay reactnary.

OPN: GAY HOLOT VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS ARE OFTEN FOTTEN – WE NEED TO TELL THEIR STORI

The se of Ernst Röhm, the hight-rankg gay Nazi, prents an tertg study the nstctn and ntament of masculy by the right. (Earlier, the Social Democrats, one of the few parti to mpaign for the repeal of Paragraph 175, showed self willg to gay-ba Röhm.

As Eleanor Hanck explas, Röhm, his face srred om war wounds, strsed a hyper-masculy to unteract ntemporary views of homosexualy as feme. His open homosexualy may have threatened the psychologil secury of some other Natnal Socialists, creatg a form of ‘male homosexual panic.

GAY NAZIS MYTH

'” 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?

Even before Ernst Röhm was murred, the Nazis had begun crackg down on homosexualy, banng anizatns, burng books, and arrtg the first of some 100, 000. 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. The groups clud Pol, Soviets, Roma, polil prisoners, disabled people, crimals, Jehovah’s Wns and those seen as homosexuals.

But to this day, many of the gay victims receive ltle to limed rearch fundg, the high ath rate of gay men the mps, and the stigma attached to homosexualy, the victims are often fotten by the world. This clud more than 100 gay and lbian bars and f, songs and films, and Magn Hirschfeld’s Instut für Sexualwissenschaft (the Instute for Sexual Science), which ntaed thoands of books and journals on sexualy and genr.

IN 'GREAT FREEDOM,' A MAN IS EED OM THE NAZIS, AND RE-IMPRISONED FOR BEG GAY

Dpe Paragraph 175, which crimalised male homosexualy the German crimal , LGBTQ+ people tend to be observed and monored rather than persecuted. In ntrast to the posn of the law, many doctors and scientists didn’t nsir homosexual behavur “viant” thgs changed when Hler me to power. Some Nazis believed that the majory of, if not all, homosexuals were Jewish bee many of the proment advot of gay rights and equaly were (cludg Hirschfeld as well as progrsive psychiatrists, physicians, lawyers and jurists).

THE NAZI WAR ON GAY PEOPLE: SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT

More than 100, 000 men intified as homosexual were arrted and many sent to ncentratn mps at Buchenwald, Dach, Sachsenhsen, Mthsen and Achwz, where between 5, 000 and 15, 000 of them died. They were, acrdg to ttimoni by straight and gay survivors, treated worse than other groups (except Jews) bee they were nsired often worked longer shifts and were given more physil labour assignments all weather ndns.

GAY HOLOT

This was bee many Nazis believed that hard labour – work gravel ps, cement plants and brickworks – uld “turn” gay men straight. Nazi scientists also strated and experimented on mat perverse attempts to fd a “cure” for their Sachsenhsen, the majory of gay men were imprisoned “sissy blocks” and weren’t allowed to mix wh other prisoners.

In the blocks, they were subject to overt persecutn, cludg verbal and physil homophobia, and surveillance om guards.

THE PECULIAR TTH ABOUT THE GAY NAZI & THE HOLY GRAIL

Heger relled that gay men had to sleep wh their hands above their blankets, and if they didn’t they were taken outsi and had buckets of water thrown at them.

Many beme sick followg this treatment, and some were sent to the hospal where they were experimented worked at the Klker brickworks, which was known as the “Achwz for homosexuals”. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg mp, where he was aga after the mps were shut down, many gay survivors were never tly liberated.

Homosexualy was not crimalised Germany until 1967 East Germany and 1969 Wt Germany, and so a number of survivors end up back prison.

GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE

Even those who did, like Hez Heger, often found themselv shunned by Jews, children, and polil prisoners uld apply for fancial and moral support om the new German ernments, homosexual men uld not. Though the opprsn of gay men durg the Holot may have fad om public memory, hate crim agast LGBTQ+ people around the world are still rife. Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep short by simply answerg the key qutns:Can you list the top facts and stats about Gay Nazis myth?

Summarize this article for a 10 years oldSHOW ALL QUESTIONSThere is a wispread and long-lastg myth allegg that homosexuals were numero and proment as a group the Nazi Party[lower-alpha 1] or the intifitn of Nazism wh homosexualy more generally. Adrian Florido speaks wh actor Franz Rogowski about the movie "Great Freedom, " where a German man is imprisoned for beg gay. They refute the mastream “neo-revisnist” history books and documentari about the Third Reich, which shockgly ignored or dismissed the Nazi war agast gay and bisexual men.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

“We mt extermate the people (homosexuals) root and branch … We n’t perm such danger to the untry; the homosexual mt be entirely elimated”.

Together wh five others – and one lbian – he rells the homophobic wch-hunts of the Third Reich the gut-wrenchg film, Paragraph 175. The dignified, fiant ttimoni of the gay survivors refute the “neo-revisnism” of mastream holot histori that neglect the Nazi persecutn of homosexuals.

SERI: GAY MEN AND LBIANS UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Stormtroopers ransacked the headquarters of the pro-gay rights anisatn, the Instute of Sexual Science, and publicly burned s vast library of “generate” books. In 1934, the Nazis stepped up their anti-gay mpaign, wh the creatn of the Reich Office for Combatg Abortn and Homosexualy. Acrdg to Himmler: “Those who practice homosexualy prive Germany of the children they owe her … our natn will fall to piec bee of that plague”.

The Nazis aga tensified the war agast what they lled “abnormal existence” 1935, broang the fn of homosexual behavur and the grounds for arrt. Later, Himmler thorised a scientific programme for the eraditn of “this vice”, wh gay prisoners beg subjected to gome medil experiments – cludg hormone implants and stratn.

The Nazis set out to eradite all racial and geic “ferrs” – not jt Jews, but also gay, disabled, black, Slav, Roma and Sti people. Their work the ncentratn mps unted toward their pensn entlement, whereas the time spent the mps by gay mat did not. The purpose of this gui is prent English language rourc not only about the Gay Holot self, but also about the suatn of Germany and the homosexuals before the Nazis.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

Below is the text of the Paragraph 175, the sodomy provisn of the German penal that nmned homosexual practic between men durg the Nazi Government Germany and some occupied untri:. Homosexualy and Male Bondg Pre-Nazi Germany: The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement, and Male Bondg before Hler's Rise.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - ID CARDS

The rourc are an troductn to the ndn of the gay muny Germany before the Nazis, wh pecial attentn to their anizatn and visibily. Here we prent troductory rourc about the ma figur on the Nazi party, the reasons for their tert on homosexuals, and their extermatn.

The rourc ver several aspects of the Gay Holot: suatn at the ncentratn mps, relatns wh other persecuted groups, the ristance, theoretil works about the Holot self, and the persecutn of homosexuals.

"Categorizatn Concentratn Camps as a Collective Fate: A Comparison of Homosexuals, Jehovah's Wns and Polil Prisoners.