Nazis and the Pink Triangle

The deaths of at least 15,000 gay men in concentration camps were officially documented. This does not include those that may have been classified Jewish or Communist.

The actual number of internees is, of course, debated. Some suggest that 100,000 were arrested by German officials and as many as 50,000 were serving prison terms as convicted gay men.

What's sad is that when the concentration camps were finally liberated, Allied military personnel remanded many of the gay men into the custody of the German prison system, to serve out the remainder of their sentences under Paragraph 175.

Ain't that a kick in the rubber parts.


see also:

• Pink Triangle
  

tags: homosexuality, homosexual, gay,holocaust