The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945.
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- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
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The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy between 1933 and 1945. It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.
They also arrted large numbers of gay men unr Paragraph 175. It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay. Intifyg as a gay man was never explicly crimalized Germany.
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However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such.
Beg gay uld and often did rult persecutn. However, other factors also shaped gay men’s liv durg the Nazi era.
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This diversy meant that gay men had a wi range of experienc Nazi Germany. For example, gay men active anti-Nazi polil movements risked beg arrted as polil opponents. And gay Jewish men faced Nazi persecutn and mass murr as Jews.
GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
Gay Men Germany, cir 1900. Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany.
Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”). The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).
The newer slang word “schwul” (often translated to English as “gay”) was also creasgly popular among certa groups. Today, the terms “Homosexualät” and “homosexuell” are often nsired rogatory.