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Homosexuals and the Holocaust (view source)
Revision as of 18:58, November 13, 2008
, 18:58, November 13, 2008Researcher says Nazi persecution not systematic, The Washington Blade, May 22, 1998
==Nazi treatment of homosexuals==
==Nazi treatment of homosexuals==
Due to the scarcity of records, it is unknown how many of these died in the camps' harsh conditions, though one historian has estimated the death rate to have been as high as 60%.<ref name=HTRC>[http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre: Homosexuals]</ref> Other homosexuals were castrated by court order, or forcibly implanted with [[testosterone]] capsules in a medical attempt to "cure" them.<ref name=HTRC/> A special division of the [[Gestapo]] (Secret State Police) had been set up in 1934, specifically to identify and arrest homosexuals.<ref name=HTRC/>
Due to the scarcity of records, it is unknown how many of these died in the camps' harsh conditions, though one historian has estimated the death rate to have been as high as 60%.<ref name=HTRC>[http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre: Homosexuals]</ref> Other homosexuals were castrated by court order, or forcibly implanted with [[testosterone]] capsules in a medical attempt to "cure" them.<ref name=HTRC/> A special division of the [[Gestapo]] (Secret State Police) had been set up in 1934, specifically to identify and arrest homosexuals.<ref name=HTRC/>
The ''Washington Blade'', the newspaper of the homosexual community in Washington D.C., reported on the research of John Fout, a “gay” history professor at Bard College in New York:
*The Nazis shut down the two or three active Gay political organizations that had been operating in German (sic) as soon as Hitler took power in 1933. However, according to Fout, Gay bars and bathhouses remained open until the late 1930s.... ‘The Gay urban subculture survived the Nazi period,’ said Fout.<ref> [http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm Researcher says Nazi persecution not systematic] - The Washington Blade, May 22, 1998</ref>
==Homosexual Nazis==
==Homosexual Nazis==