Pink Triangle
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Websites
The History of the Gay Male and Lesbian Experience during World War
II
www.pink-triangle.org/
General history of the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.
'One Day They Were Simply Gone': The Nazi persecution of homosexuals
www.infopt.demon.co.uk/nazi.htm
Excellent essay by Rictor Norton, originally published in Gay News.
The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals
http://members.aol.com/dalembert/lgbt_history/
biblio_al.html
An extremely extensive annotated bibliography of non-fiction articles
and books.
Der Eigene goes to press
www.gayhistory.com/rev2/factfiles/ff1896.htm
Short article on the German movement that advocated classical homosexuality
in the late 19th century.
Books
For more sources, see the bibliography in 'The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals' website above.
The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger (Gay Men's Press,
1997) £7.95
The author's personal account of persecution in Nazi Germany and surviving
the gay holocaust.
The Pink Triangle – The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard
Plant (Mainstream Publishing, 1997) £12.95
Overview and historical perspective on the Nazi persecution of gay men.
Hidden Holocaust? Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45
by Günter Grau, translated by Patrick Camiller (Cassell, 1995) £16.99
A history of the Nazis' attitude toward, and treatment of, homosexuals
that draws on documents from the East German State archives.
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the gay and Lesbian past edited
by Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey (Plume Books, 1990)£12
Contains the essay 'Swastika, Pink Triangle, and Yellow Star: The destruction
of sexology and the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany' by Edwin
J Haeberle.
Aimee and Jaguar: Love Story, Berlin, 1943 by Erica Fischer (Bloomsbury,
1995) £7.99
The moving account of an ecstatic love affair in wartime Berlin between
Lilly Wust, a mother of four, and Jewish Felice Schragenheim.
Liberation Was for Others: Memoirs of a gay survivor of the Nazi Holocaust
by Pierre Seel, translated by Joachim Neugroschel (Da Capo Press, 1997).
Available only from online bookshops.
First-hand account of the Nazi round-up and persecution of homosexuals.
The Hidden Hitler by Lothar Machtan (Perseus Press, 2001) £19.99
Controversial book that claims evidence for Hitler's homosexuality.
The Night of the Long Knives by Max Gallo, translated by Lily
Emmet (Da Capo Press, 1997). Available only from online bookshops.
Hour-by-hour account of the assassination of the leaders of the Sturmabteilung
(SA) or 'Brown Shirts' and, in particular, its leader – the homosexual
Ernst Röhm.
Sex, Death and Punishment by Richard Davenport-Hines (Fontana,
1991). Out of print; available from libraries and second-hand bookshops.
A history of sexual repression that traces the ways in which illicit sexuality
has been defined, curtailed and punished over the last five centuries
in Britain.
