Bibliograph

The men with the pink triangle, the true, life-and-death story of homosexuals in the Nazi death camps, Heinz Heger ; translated by David Fernbach

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The men with the pink triangle, the true, life-and-death story of homosexuals in the Nazi death camps, Heinz Heger ; translated by David Fernbach

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The men with the pink triangle

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1368271933

Responsibility statement

Heinz Heger ; translated by David Fernbach

Sub title

the true, life-and-death story of homosexuals in the Nazi death camps

Summary

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

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