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Title: Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-And-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger, David Fernback, Kalus Muller ISBN: 1-55583-006-4 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic holocaust biography.
Comment: Heinz Heger's book has become the definitive story of life as a 'pink triangle' in a concentration camp. Sadly this is partly because the Nazi's deliberate policy of murder of this group ensured few survived and also due to the understandable fear of those who did survive to tell their story. If you have read Primo Levi you should read this. It is more immediate than Levi's writings, and there is less analysis, making it all the more horrifying. He simply tells what happened, mentioning only his amazement at the hypocrisy and cruelty exhibited by his German captors. The only other book that comes near to it is 'Liberation Was For Others', by Pierre Seel, an autobiographical tale of life in Schirmeck-Vorbruch. Seel continues his story to the post-war period, pointing out that for homosexuals suffering did not end in 1945.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book profoundly touched me
Comment: I read this short book in one sitting and was so moved I had to re-read it again the next evening. All people, I feel, will identify with the story on some level. I have passed this book around my circle of friends, and their emotions ranged from anger and disgust toward the Nazis to profound sadness and sympathy towards the writer. This book is not for the depressed or overly sensative! Oftentimes, one forgets the impact of Nazi aggression on those who experienced torture firsthand. I only wish more was known about the Third Reich's war on gay men.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Moving and Powerful True Account of Survival
Comment: A sodomy law had been on the German law books since 1871, a law known simply as Paragraph 175. Only a few people were ever sentenced under this obscure law until June of 1935 when, after the rise of Hitler and Nazism, the Nuremberg laws were enacted and the consequences of Paragraph 175 strengthened. Where once before, you had to be caught in the act of same sex relations, now simply receiving a letter or the spreading of idle gossip would have you sent to a concentration camp.
"The Men with the Pink Triangle" is one anonymous man's account of the harshness and cruelty faced by gay men at the hands of the SS and the ruling Nazi party, as well as by the other prisoners -- criminals, politicals, emigrants -- who viewed "filthy queers" as lower than the rest of them. They were distinguished by the large, pink triangles sown onto their prison outfits, making them easy targets for taunts and punishments. Also, homosexuals labored through the worst of the work details and "volunteered" for medical experimentation, which usually resulted in their deaths.
Some advantages also appeared for gay men. The "Capos" who were in charge of the prisoner barracks, often made lovers of some of the prisoners, giving them some protection and better rations and clothing. As is says in the book: "Homosexual behavior between two 'normal' men is considered an emergency outlet, while the same thing between two gay men, who both feel deeply for one another, is something 'filthy' and repulsive." The anonymous man used this to his advantage and survived the camps and the threat of being sent to the front lines.
Ths is a moving and powerful story about survival and about the right to be who you are, during one of the darkest times in world history. Highly recommended.
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Title: The Pink Triangle : The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant ISBN: 0805006001 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) by Gad Beck, Frank Heibert, Allison Brown ISBN: 0299165043 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Bent: The Play by Martin Sherman ISBN: 1557833362 Publisher: Applause Theatre Books (Sd) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Other Victims : First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis by Ina R. Friedman ISBN: 0395745152 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival (Jewish Lives) by Thomas Toivi Blatt ISBN: 0810113023 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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