LGBTQI+ Persecution during the Holocaust

An Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Perseverance

Alexis Herr (Author)

LGBTQI+ Persecution during the Holocaust

An Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Perseverance

Alexis Herr (Author)

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Gives voice to the experiences of LGBTQ+ persons prior to, during, and after the Holocaust, showing how the Nazi regime instituted a violent, oppressive, and murderous attack on LGBTQ+ life, culture, and identity.

Hitler and the Nazis' reign of power had dire and long-lasting consequences for LGBTQ+ persons in Germany, Europe, and arguably the world. This survey of key topics and themes within the greater landscape of the Holocaust and genocide studies helps identify how deep-seated prejudices against LGBTQ+ persons evolved into eliminationist ideology under the Nazis. Entries consider the lives of the persecuted and the persecutors alongside examinations of the attitudes and ideas that shaped their present and prejudices; in short, how the German society at large came to condone, and at times participate in, the forceful arrest and disappearance of thousands of their fellow citizens. Considering also the resistance movement, profiles of key individuals tell the story of those who resisted the Nazi assault on LGBTQ+ persons. A chronology of key events, perspective essays, and primary sources further help shed light on the resilience and resistance of the community and the evolution of their persecution under the Nazis.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Key Events

Part One: Introductory Essays
LGBTQI+ Persons Under the German Empire, 1871-1914
LGBTQI+ and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1933
LGBTQI+ Persons Under the Nazi Regime, 1933-1945
LGBTQI+ After the 1945

Part Two: A–Z Entries
Arondeus, Willem
Asocials
Auschwitz Concentration Camp, LGBTQI+ Victims
Beck, Gerhard (Gad)
Belinfante, Frieda
Buchenwald Concentration Camp, LGBTQI+ Victims
Cabaret (1972)
Compensation and Restitution, LGBTQI+ Victims
Concentration Camps, Treatment of LGBTQI+ Victims
Damenklub Violetta
Degeneration and Sexuality
Drag (“Cross-Dressing”)
Eldorado Night Club
Eick, Annette
Eugenics, Nazi Germany
Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, LGBTQI+ Victims
Forced/Coerced Sterilization
Fuhlsbüttel Concentration Camp and Prison
Girls in Uniform
Grese, Irma
Grune, Richard
Himmler, Heinrich
Hirschfeld, Magnus
Hitler, Adolf
The Homosexual is not Perverse, But, Rather, the Situation in Which He Lives (1971)
Institute for Sexual Science (Institut fü Sexualwissenschaft)
Kitzing, Fritz
Kohout, Josef (Heinz Heger)
Lesbianism in Nazi Germany
The Men with the Pink Triangle
Memorial and Monuments to LGBTQI+ Victims
Nazi Book Burning
The Night of Long Knifes/Röhm Purge
Nuremberg Laws
Paragraph 175
Pink Lists (Rosa Listen)
Pink Triangle
Propaganda, Overview
Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, LGBTQI+ Victims
Reich Central Office to Combat Homosexuality an Abortion
Röhm Scandal
Röhm, Ernst
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, LGTBQI+ Victims
Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK)
Seel, Pierre
Transgender Persons in Nazi Germany
Transvestite Passport
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich
Vaernet, Carl
Volksgemeinschaft (People's Community)
Von Mahlsdorf, Charlotte
Waldoff, Claire

Part Three: Primary Source Documents
1. Gad Beck Oral History
2. Photograph of German Students Rallying Outside the Institute for Sexual Science (May 6, 1993)
3. Nina Kaleska Oral History
4. Paragraph 175
a. 1871
b. 1935
c. 1969
d. 1973
5. Teofil (Stefan) Kosinski Oral History
6. Transgender in Nazi Germany: Gerd Katter (born Eva Katter)
a. Medical Certification Signed by Magnus Hirschfeld Defining Katter as a “Transvestite”
b. Identification Card that Gives Gerd Katter Permission to Dress in Male Clothing
c. Photograph of Gerd Katter in male clothing, 1929
7. United Nations Genocide Convention (1948)
8. Crimes Against Humanity, Rome Statute, Article 7 (1998)
9. Susan Dregely Oral History

Part Four: Perspective Essays
Introduction
About the Contributors
1. Do you consider the Nazi persecution of LGBTQI+ Germans during the Holocaust a
genocide? Why or why not?
a. Perspective 1, W. Jake Newsome (independent scholar, United States)
b. Perspective 2, Amy H. Shapiro (Alverno College, United States)
2. In your opinion, why didn't bystanders do more to defend, rescue, and/or support
LGBTQI+ victims during and/or after the Holocaust?
a. Perspective 1, W. Jake Newsome
b. Perspective 2, Amy H. Shapiro
3. Why is it important to remember what happened to the LGBTQI+ community during the
Holocaust? What must we remember, and what can we learn from this history?
a. Perspective 1, W. Jake Newsome
b. Perspective 2, Amy H. Shapiro

Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author