The men with the pink triangle : the true, life-and-death story of homosexuals in the Nazi death camps
Heinz Heger (Author), Sarah Schulman, David Fernbach (Translator)
For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed "undesirable," suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality, now with a new foreword by Sarah Schulman, remains an essential contribution to gay history and our understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable and complex story of survival and identity
Print Book, English, 2023
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Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2023
autobiographies (literary works)
x, 141 pages : map ; 22 cm
9781642598797, 9781642598469, 1642598798, 1642598461
1368271933
Preface by Sarah SchulmanIntroduction by Klaus Müller1. Imprisoned as a “Degenerate”2. Arrival at Sachsenhausen3. A Camp of Torture and Toil4. Flossenbürg5. The Polish Boys and the Gypsy Capo6. Commander “Dustbag”7. Burnings and Tortures8. A Pink-Triangled Capo9. A “Cure” for Homosexuality, and Air Raids10. The End, and Home AgainGlossary
Originally published in German in 1972. First published in English in 1980
Written by Heinz Heger from experiences described to him by Austrian Holocaust survivor Josef Kohout
In English, translated from German