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Main image (used as the backdrop to every
page) Striped shirt.
Credit: Lewis Oswald, LewisOswald.com.
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'The
Nameless Love' by John Henry Mackay. Originally published in 1924
in 'Der Eigene'
Montage of 30 Auschwitz identity photographs of men held
under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Before it all
Cover of the September 1931 issue of The Island, a magazine
for homosexuals, edited by Martin Radzuweit. Although illegal, homosexuality
was generally tolerated in pre-Nazi Germany, particularly in urban
areas. Some 30 literary, cultural, and political journals for homosexual
readers appeared during the Weimar era.
- Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Timeline
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Paragraph 175
Police
photo: Man arrested Oct 1937 on suspicion of violating P175
Credit: Landesarchiv, Berlin/USHMM
Arrests
Auschwitz
identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Auschwitz
identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Auschwitz
identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Auschwitz
identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Auschwitz
identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Pink Triangles
Auschwitz
identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Auschwitz
identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
A chart of prisoner markings used in German concentration camps.Credit:
USHMM, courtesy of KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau
The Camps
Entrance to Auschwitz: 'The gates of Hell':
Credit: Alan Jacobs http://www.remember.org/jacobs/BirkEntrance.html
Prisoners standing during a roll call. Each wears a striped
hat and uniform bearing colored, triangular badges & identification
numbers.
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Robert A. Schmuhl
Sachsenhausen
prisoners, wearing uniforms with triangular badges, stand in columns
under the supervision of a camp guard.
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of
National Archives
A prisoner in Dachau forced
to stand without moving for hours as a punishment.
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau
Prisoners at forced labor in the Mauthausen concentration camp. Beginning
in 1943, homosexuals were among those in concentration camps who were
killed in an SS-sponsored "extermination through work" program.
Credit: Nederl&s Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie/USHMM
A chart
of prisoner markings used in German concentration camps.
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau
Kitty Fisher quote taken from 'Paragraph 175' 2000: Directed by: Rob
Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman,
Telling Pictures film.
Liberation
for Others
Survivors in an unidentified camp [possibly Ebensee] soon after
liberation
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Wayne Larabee
Auschwitz identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Auschwitz identity photo of man held under Paragraph 175-
Credit: State Museum of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Recognition
'The
Men with the Pink Triangle'.
Heger, Heinz. Revised edition.
Boston: Alyson Publishers, 1994.
'The
Pink Triangle: The Nazi War against Homosexuals',
Plant, Richard
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1986.
'Paragraph
175',
2000: Directed by: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman,
Telling Pictures film.
Credits
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Resources
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Statement
Detail of the fence at Auschwitz Birkenau. Credit: Alan Jacobs
'The Light That Never Goes Out' painting by Lewis Oswald.
Credit: Lewis Oswald.com
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld
Propaganda slide showing Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of the
Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin.
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Library of Congress
German students and Nazi SA plunder the library of Dr. Magnus
Hirschfeld, Director of the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin.
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives
A 1907 Political cartoon depicting sex-researcher Magnus Hirschfeld,
'Hero of the Day,' drumming up support for the abolition of § 175
of the German penal code that criminalized homosexuality. The banner
reads, 'Away with § 175!' The caption reads, 'The foremost champion
of the third sex!'
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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