Homosexuals during the Holocaust
By Megan Lindsey
The plan
• Give a history of homosexual culture before, during, and a bit after the holocaust
• Explain the importance of knowing
History before…
• Was practiced in ancient times by the Greeks and Romans
• Paul and the apostles
• Still around and was practiced
• France, Berlin
Nazi Party
• Official gained power 1933
• Viewed homosexuals as weak
• Believed they caused a lower birth rate, corruption, and endangered public morality
• Didn’t see lesbians as a threat
• Heinrich Himmler
• Paragraph 175
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld
• Studied sexuality
• A Jewish Homosexual
• Founded the Institute of Sexual Research in Berlin
• May 6, 1933: Nazis break into the institute, later burn all books in it
Ernst Röhm
• Homosexual Nazi officer
• Leader of the SA (storm troopers)
• Killed during the “Night of Long Knifes”
Camps
• Captures
• Either prisons or concentration camps
• Pink Triangle
• Treated worse then many others• Forced Labor• Deadly assignments
Pink Triangle
Experiments
• Buchenwald Camp
• Typhus experiments
• Castration experiments
• Hormonal experiments
“- despite all that, Liberation was only for others.” ~ Pierre Seel
• Liberation
• Discrimination
• Lack of recognition
The importance
• Unfair to those who suffered
• Unknown by most people
