Gay Men unr the Nazi Regime | Holot Encyclopedia

Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

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. In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works.

Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.

For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them. A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

RICHARD EVANS: As far as homosexualy go of urse, there’s a kd of obssn the SS and Himmler particular, maybe bee the SS nsisted of large numbers of men close un groups, he wanted to sort of stop .

He believed homosexuals were effemate and they weren’t producg children for the German race, which was the centre of German Nazi populatn policy, so there was a particular anim agast them. However one shouldn’t entirely exaggerate this bee the numbers of homosexuals that were nvicted and put to jail unr Chancellor Aner Wt Germany 1950s is about the same as was unr the Nazis. LAURENCE REES: How n people who are extremely telligent thk that the way to al wh homosexualy is - as Dr Schultz did - to take a homosexual man and say 'you’ve now got to have sex wh a female German prostute or we’ll send you to a ncentratn mp'?

RICHARD EVANS: Well bee Himmler thought that most homosexuals were socially ndned and only a mory were blogilly, heredarily that way cled so that they uld not do anythg else. So was a way of fdg out who was jt socially ndned and therefore not really homosexual and those who were nately homosexual and therefore served to be maltreated and killed. ” In 1936, Himmler created the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung).