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