The Men With the Pink Triangle - The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps

Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.

List of contents

Preface by Sarah Schulman
Introduction by Klaus Müller

1. Imprisoned as a “Degenerate”
2. Arrival at Sachsenhausen
3. A Camp of Torture and Toil
4. Flossenbürg
5. The Polish Boys and the Gypsy Capo
6. Commander “Dustbag”
7. Burnings and Tortures
8. A Pink-Triangled Capo
9. A “Cure” for Homosexuality, and Air Raids
10. The End, and Home Again

Glossary

About the author

Heinz Heger was the pen name of Hans Neumann, a writer who recorded the experiences of an Austrian survivor of the Holocaust, Josef Kohout, who died in 1994.

Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, nonfiction, and theater, and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island and a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. Her most recent book is Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993.

Klaus Müller is a historian and consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Summary

Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.

Foreword

• Promotion targeting literary publications like the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.


• Promotion targeting left leaning publications like the Nation, Jacobin, and Dissent.


• Direct marketing to anti-fascist and queer activist groups and core Haymarket audience.


• Social media publicity campaign.

Product details

• Authors: Heinz Heger, Heger Heinz
• Assisted by: Klaus Mller (Introduction), Klaus Müller (Introduction), Sarah Schulman (Foreword), Sarah Schulman (Foreword), Schulman Sarah (Foreword), David Fernbach (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.2023
• EAN: 9781642598797
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-879-7
• No. of pages: 130
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, Memoirs, Second World War, The Holocaust, Gay & Lesbian studies, c 1940 to c 1949, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics