Useful Links
The Pink Triangle: From Nazi Label to Symbol of Gay Pride
https://www.history.com/news/pink-triangle-nazi-concentration-camps
Includes videos from gay holocaust survivors, a lesson plan, and information about gays in the holocaust
https://legacyprojectchicago.org/milestone/pink-triangle
Nazi persecution of queer people
https://arolsen-archives.org/en/about-us/statements/nazi-persecution-of-queer-people/
Nazism’s Pink Hell
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/categories-of-prisoners/homosexuals-a-separate-category-of-prisoners/robert-biedron-nazisms-pink-hell/
Recounting Terror and Sexual Violence: Josef Kohout’s The Men With the Pink Triangle
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/the-men-with-the-pink-triangle-heinz-heger
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945 (Museum Exhibit)
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/persecution-of-homosexuals/
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
by Heinz Heger
https://www.amazon.com/Men-Pink-Triangle-Life-Death/dp/1555830064
Classroom Activities
Homosexual Life Under Nazi Rule: The Legacy of Paragraph 175
Learning ObjectivesStudents will:
Classroom reading about Isolating Homosexuals & The Enforcement of Paragraph 175
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-5/isolating-homosexuals
Learning ObjectivesStudents will:
- Examine personal testimonies in order to understand what conditions were like for homosexuals living in Nazi occupied Germany before and during WWII.
- Recognize and analyze the ways in which homosexuals in Nazi occupied Germany responded to persecution and repression.
Classroom reading about Isolating Homosexuals & The Enforcement of Paragraph 175
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-5/isolating-homosexuals