After taking office on January 30, 1933, Hitler banned all homosexual and lesbian organizations. Brown shirted storm troopers raided the institutions and gathering places of homosexuals.
Homosexuals being hated in Germany wasn't as new of a concept as, the Jews being hated. Before being captured Homosexuals lives weren't as pleasant as the Jews and many others. The Nazi men looked down upon them with disgust and hatred ,believing that they were weak and what they did was unnatural.
When homosexual men were captured ,they were sent to concentration camps and were forced to were pink triangles so that the Nazi men know how to identify them.
Between January 1933 and June 1935, 4,000 men were convicted under the old Paragraph 175. Around four homosexuals a day were captured. From June 1935 to June 1938, 40,000 men were convicted of an “unnatural sex act” – around 54 men each day. Another 10,000 men were arrested from June 1938 to June 1939. By the end of World War Two, it is thought that 100,000 homosexual men had been arrested with 50,000 of them sent to prison. Between 5,000 and 15,000 were sent to concentration camps.
Among the many concentration camps in Germany homosexuals were sent to mostly Buchenwald, Neuengamme and Flossenburg. While they were there ,homosexuals were either forced to carry dead bodies to the Klinker factory or were tested on.Nazi men unsure of what made the homosexuals the way they were often tested on them to find a cure for their "unnatural behavior ",but only succeeded in creating illnesses ,mutilation and often times death.
Being in the concentration camps, there was no known way out, Hitler and the Nazis made sure of that. Any homosexual that tried to go over the fence were shot on sight or electrocuted by the fence. Often times in the mornings at the camps Nazi men would find dead bodies of the homosexuals who tried to escape still clinging to the fences.
Homosexuals still continued to suffer, after the end of the war. In 1945 American troops came to save holocaust victims, most of them Jews. After Homosexuals were liberated, the Americans did not repeal Paragraph 175 of the criminal code and homosexual inmates that were freed from the camps were sent to other prisons.
Homosexuals being hated in Germany wasn't as new of a concept as, the Jews being hated. Before being captured Homosexuals lives weren't as pleasant as the Jews and many others. The Nazi men looked down upon them with disgust and hatred ,believing that they were weak and what they did was unnatural.
When homosexual men were captured ,they were sent to concentration camps and were forced to were pink triangles so that the Nazi men know how to identify them.
Between January 1933 and June 1935, 4,000 men were convicted under the old Paragraph 175. Around four homosexuals a day were captured. From June 1935 to June 1938, 40,000 men were convicted of an “unnatural sex act” – around 54 men each day. Another 10,000 men were arrested from June 1938 to June 1939. By the end of World War Two, it is thought that 100,000 homosexual men had been arrested with 50,000 of them sent to prison. Between 5,000 and 15,000 were sent to concentration camps.
Among the many concentration camps in Germany homosexuals were sent to mostly Buchenwald, Neuengamme and Flossenburg. While they were there ,homosexuals were either forced to carry dead bodies to the Klinker factory or were tested on.Nazi men unsure of what made the homosexuals the way they were often tested on them to find a cure for their "unnatural behavior ",but only succeeded in creating illnesses ,mutilation and often times death.
Being in the concentration camps, there was no known way out, Hitler and the Nazis made sure of that. Any homosexual that tried to go over the fence were shot on sight or electrocuted by the fence. Often times in the mornings at the camps Nazi men would find dead bodies of the homosexuals who tried to escape still clinging to the fences.
Homosexuals still continued to suffer, after the end of the war. In 1945 American troops came to save holocaust victims, most of them Jews. After Homosexuals were liberated, the Americans did not repeal Paragraph 175 of the criminal code and homosexual inmates that were freed from the camps were sent to other prisons.
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