Homosexual Persecution In The

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

been persecuted and sent to concentration camps could now be punished under the same law. Also, homosexuals were not counted among Hitler's victims. Neither post-war German state had a "relevant" record in this area (Burleigh and Wipperman, 183). In 1935, the Reichstag amended paragraph 175 of the Criminal Code to close what were seen as loopholes in the current law. The new law had three parts. One of them stating "A male who commits a sex offense with another male or allows himself to be used by another male for a sex offense shall be punished with imprisonment."
Very little has been written about the tens of thousands of homosexuals who were the damnedest of the damned, the outcasts among the outcasts in the concentration camps. There are really only estimates of figures. During the twelve years of Nazi rule, nearly 50,000 were convicted of the crime of homosexuality. The majority ended up in concentration camps, and virtually all of them perished. According to a recent ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

hands above their blankets. These people were not child molesters; those were considered professional criminals, green triangles.
While men with pink triangles were given the hardest jobs and were constantly being abused for their admitted sexual preference, considerable numbers of "normal" men engaged in homosexual acts with impunity — that was an emergency outlet. This double standard was an additional psychological burden for the pink triangles (Heger, Hienz 12).
The SS considered it great sport to taunt and torture the homosexuals. The camp commander at Flossenburg often ordered them flogged; as the victims were screaming, he "was panting with excitement, and masturbated wildly in ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: