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Nazi persecution of homosexuals

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A six page paper which looks at the revisionist history work, The Pink Swastika, and other issues surrounding the relationship of the Nazi regime to homosexuality. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

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6 pages (~225 words per page)

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There have been a number of different and often conflicting studies on the treatment of minorities in the Nazi concentration camps before and during the Second World War. For example, although the death of millions of Jews was for many years accepted as established fact, there have been attempts by revisionist historians to prove that the number of Jews who died was much fewer than had originally been estimated and that the Holocaust, in terms of mass human destruction, had in fact not occurred at all. Even though these claims have been for the most part firmly refuted, there is a similar debate regarding the Nazi view of homosexuality, which maintains that far from persecuting homosexuals, the Nazi party supported and practised homosexuality and would therefore not have played any part in the murder of thousands of gay men. However, this theory has also for the most part been successfully challenged by those who have investigated the way in which homosexuals were persecuted during the 1930s and 1940s. The central theme of The Pink Swastika, by Lively and Abrams (1995), is that far from being responsible for the persecution and death of homosexuals during the Holocaust, the Nazi party was itself rooted in homosexual beliefs and practices, and this is seen by the authors as supporting the revisionist view of Nazi history. They contend that whilst the traditional view of the history of the 1930s and 1940s has ...

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