The Pink Triangle : The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

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The Pink Triangle : The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

Author: Richard Plant
Binding: Paperback
Published: 15 February, 1988
ISBN: 0805006001

$10.50


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The Pink Triangle : The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

The Pink Triangle : The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
by: Richard Plant

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.3 / 5.0

A chapter of the Holocaust not to be ignored:

The sheer number of victims of Hitler's Nazi Holocaust during the Third Reich is so numbing that piling on more numbers may not even register. But the numbers are higher than the 6 million usually given and almost always in reference to the Jewish victims. Some estimates are up to double that number when other categories of what Hitler decried as "degenerates" are added, and this book calls attention to one such group, either forgotten or ignored by history, but present nonetheless. "Men With the Pink... more info

Informative but a Little Dry:

Plant gives incredible detail into the lives of those in charge of the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis in World War II. In addition to a behind the scenes look into Nazi operations, including biographies of SS Himmler and Roehm, Hitler's top officials, Plant puts it all in the context of what gay Berlin/Germany was like at the time and leading up to WWII. Overall, this book is quite informative and eye opening, but a little dry. I expected to see shocking photos and gut wrenching first hand accounts... more info

Not much action:

OK, we know what the Nazis thought of Jews, so woowoo, it does not take a lot of imagination to figure out what they thought about Jewish homosexuals. With a title like "The Pink Triangle" one would expect a lot of antidotal stories of Third Reich horror. Unfortunately you will not get that here - not even the usual pictures unidentifiable starved dead bodies stacked up all over the place.

This is more of a one man's search for his long lost childhood buddy. The author was separated from a dear friend in... more info


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