The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals - Ebook written by Richard Plant. They were at the bottom of the camp hierarchy, brutalized and abused past the point of human endurance. This group was of course, the wearer of the pink triangle, in other words, the homosexual population of Germany. https://www.amazon.com/Men-Pink-Triangle-Life-Death/dp/1459608399 It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Under the Nazi regime, homosexual men were confined to death camps where they were forced to wear pink triangles as a symbol of their crime. In most cases, items shipped from Amazon.com may be returned for a full refund. Unable to add item to List. Ingrained social disapproval of homosexuality ensured that the gay men remained the forgotten victims of the Holocaust. Powells This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. I knew of the Pink Triangles as seen in a few movies I've watched: A Love to Hide (2005), Bent (1997), and Fateless (2005) This book travels through history starting when Berlin … Would be an excellent piece as a supplement for collegiate studies. this book is a hard read book to read, the language can be confuseing and it is hard to get into but once you do it is fantasticly interesting, plant goes into great detail and it can be amazing that this is nonfiction! Lest we forget. Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages: Porter, Darwin, … They were put in the camps as well. Only in recent years has there been any recognition of the horrific suffering endured by gay men at the hands of German National Socialism. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. The product is hardback, which is better than I expected. However, Heinz Heger suggests in his Plant writes. He tells us which people from his address book do not have to be informed of his death. edition (February 15, 1988). But, as much has been written about other groups persecuted by the Nazis, a more significant reason is obviously due to the attitude which prevailed in the decades following the war which more or less held that gay men deserved their treatment. Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2017. We are aware of the fact that numerous jewish individuals died during this event, but most people are not aware of the other 5 million people that died. I would appreciate an updated or more recently researched book as I'm curious not only about the information that may have been uncovered since the 1980s, but mostly how a different historical lens would treat this same information. Please try again. The intro is kind of slow, but it is an important history, it gives scale, but it explains a lot about not only how homophobia & queerphobia is used to attack people, but it's also details clickbait. Very well researched, and very sad. This book attempts to answer the question of why the Nazi regime declared war on gay men. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Pink-Triangle-Heinz-Heger/dp/1555830064 True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps The book focuses primarily on the plight of homosexual men during the holocaust. His treatment of the homosexuals in the "camps" was thorough to the extent of his information. This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. the author decided many books about the specific conditions and how people survived are written about extensively so covered the specifics of gays and generally avoided the biographies that fill most books about the Holocaust. 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