Sections

The symbols and other methods of classifying prisoners

Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code

How many people died?

What happened to lesbians?

Witnesses

Camps

Revisionist history and how to answer it.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum including Homosexuals: Victims of the Nazi Era and Persecution of Homosexuals in the Third Reich

References about the experiences of gay men and lesbians in Nazi-controlled Europe.

Since 1992, this website has provided information about the gay and lesbian experience in Nazi Germany.

Scott Safier maintains this page.

In their own words

Caption

Pierre Seel the execution of his lover in Schirmeck.

Heinz Heger, pseudonym daily life in Sachsenhausen.

Josef Kohout a letter dated December 28, 1943 from the Commandant of Flossenburg confirms that Kohout is imprisoned in Block 6, Nr 1869; on April 24, 1945, Kohout was ordered on a death march to Dachau. The march ended in Cham, where Kohout was permitted to return home; Kohout registered as a victim of the camps on June 19, 1945.

Karl Gorath's ID Card from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim's ID Card from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Kurt von Ruffin biography

Paul Gerhard Vogel Recalling his imprisonment; Talking about the shit squad's kapo and homosexual behavior in the camp.

Willem Arondeus A speech by The Honarable Gerry E. Studds in the U. S. House of Representatives, April 21, 1993.

When you tour the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, you are given a card. Several of the cards are about gay men. The text of Karl Lange's card is reproduced here.

Albrecht Becker's biography from Paragraph 175

Heinz Dörmer's biography from Paragraph 175

Heinz F.'s biography from Paragraph 175 (last name withheld by request)

PHOTO Unidentified German gay couple from Paragraph 175 Official website of the documentary.