The Nazi doctor who experimented on gay people – and Bra helped to pe jtice | Peter Tatchell | The Guardian

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• THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE
• 9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
• JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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

On October 1, 1944, the first of two sets of medil experiments volvg stratn are performed on homosexuals at the Buchenwald ncentratn mp, near Weimar, Germany. Euthanasia was also performed regularly on Jews, Romani people and mentally ill MORE: The Pk Triangle: From Nazi Label to Symbol of Gay PriAmong the celt of Buchenwald’s overseers was the famo Ilsa Koch, wife of SS mandant Karl Koch and known as the “Wch of Buchenwald. 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.

9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE

They ma no attempt to prosecute him for war crim, possibly bee they regard his rearch to “cure” homosexualy as legimate, even Danish thori have still not explaed why Vær and his Danish protectors were shield om prosecutn and why took my public challenge to force them to open the Vær fil.

For seventeen years (1971-1989), the South Ain ernment rried out a project of ferretg out homosexuals (men and women) om the ary and subjectg them to medil torture and forced sex change operatns. Shortly I found that I was bissexual and began to engage homosexual relatnships wh others. They forced me to regnize I was a homosexual before my parents and lleagu.

JOURNALIST WHO UNVERED CHECHNYA’S ANTI-GAY PURGE ATTACKED

The upsi down pk triangle was ed to mark a person as a homosexual via wiki mons. Homosexualy was banned 1933 when the Nazi Party me to power. Viewed as unter to the plans to produce and propagate a German master race, cir 50, 000 dividuals were nvicted for beg homosexuals durg the reign of the Reich wh as many as 15, 000 of those dividuals beg sent to ncentratn mps.

All ditors pot to the notn that homosexuals were treated worse than any other group the mps wh guards treatg them wh pecial celty. Sixty percent of homosexuals would die the mps where they were also shunned by Jews, members of the telligensia, Roma, and other persecuted mory groups.

What’s more they were also the subjects of repeated Nazi experimentatn rangg om stratn to experiments tend to lote the of homosexualy so as to eradite .

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Even after World War II had end, homosexuals who had died or been imprisoned the mps were not acknowledged as havg been victims of Nazi persecutn due to the overwhelmg stigma. Last year Lebanon, five men crimally acced of homosexualy were forced to subm to a police orred tt on behalf of the “Moral Protectn Bure. Refal to take the tt those s was ed as evince that they were homosexuals.