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• WERE GAY CONCENTRATN CAMP PRISONERS 'PUT BACK PRISON' AFTER WORLD WAR II?
• 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
• OPN: GAY HOLOT VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS ARE OFTEN FOTTEN – WE NEED TO TELL THEIR STORI
• THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

WERE GAY CONCENTRATN CAMP PRISONERS 'PUT BACK PRISON' AFTER WORLD WAR II?

The post was acpanied by a picture of a pk triangle -- the symbol officials Nazi Germany ed to intify and ostracize gay ncentratn mp prisoners -- and a quote drawn om the webse for The Pk Triangle of San Francis, an annual event rememberg those victimized unr Nazi le:.

Between 1933 and 1945, an timated 100, 000 men were arrted for vlatg Nazi Germany's law agast homosexualy, and of the, approximately 50, 000 were sentenced to prison.

The men arrted for beg gay were targeted unr a revised versn of a 19th century statute, Paragraph 175, which was expand to tegorize homosexualy as a crime of "cency. And their alli feated the Nazi regime, the law remaed effect after World War II, as the Holot Memorial mm's exhib on the regime's anti-gay persecutn stat:.

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

The Nazi versn of Paragraph 175 remaed on the books of the Feral Republic of Germany (Wt Germany) until the law was revised 1969 to crimalize homosexual relatns between men over the age of 21. On 22 March 2017, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her bet approved a bill that overturned nvictns for gay men which had rried out unr Paragraph 175 between 1949 and 1969 and also provid pensatn for survivg victims. The pk triangle symbol has sce evolved to an important remr for the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny of the ntug homophobia and humany agast them and other reprsed mori around the world.

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

“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. 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.

” In 1930, Nazi Reichstag legate Wilhelm Frick, later ternal affairs mister Hler’s ernment, prented a plan for the stratn of homosexuals, “that Jewish plague. 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.

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

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. 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.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The lg was broaned 1940 so that arrted homosexuals who had had multiple partners would be immediately sent to a ncentratn mp after servg their sentenc. 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. 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. 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.