The Hidden Holocaust? - Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Persecution, 'Re-education' or 'Eradication' of Male Homosexuals between 1933 and 1945; The Position of Lesbian Women in the Nazi Period; Part I Public Discrimination against Homosexual Men; (a) Disputes about Whether Homosexuality Should Be a Criminal Offence; (b) Police Raids, Bans and Arrests: 1933 to 1935; Part II Tightening up the Law from September 1935; (a) The National Socialist Revision of Section 175 of the Penal Code; (b) Discussions Concerning the Prosecution of Lesbians; Part III The Stepping up of Prosecutions from 1936; (a) Nation-wide Registration of Homosexual Men; (b) The Reich Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion - an Instrument of Practical Implementation; (c) The Consequences; Part IV Intensified Persecution after 1939; (a) 'Ruthless Severity' in the Wehrmacht; (b) The Death Penalty for Homosexuals in the SS and Police; (c) Action in the Occupied Territories; (d) Combating 'Homosexual Transgressions' in the Hitler Youth; Part V Castration as an Instrument of Repression; Part V Castration as an Instrument of Repression; Part VI Homosexual Men in Concentration Camps; (a) Pink-Triangle Prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp; (b) Experiments in 'Reversal of Hormonal Polarity' at Buchenwald

About the author

Günter Grau, Claudia Shoppmann

Summary

Hidden Holocaust?, by the German scholars Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann of Humboldt University in Berlin, is a compilation (with commentary) of formerly unseen/unpublished documents and is organized as a year-by-year record of Nazi terror.

Product details

• Assisted by: Günter Grau (Editor), Claudia Shoppmann (Editor), Shoppmann Claudia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781884964152
• ISBN: 978-1-884964-15-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 100 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, The environment, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Science / Environmental Science, Gay & Lesbian studies, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater