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This book documents immeasurable pain for thousands.:

I've never read a book in which I did NOT want to know what happened next until reading The Men With the Pink Triangle. It's harrowing, it's graphic, it's told with great humility, and it's moving. It's also a warning for the glbt community everywhere. It's our history and we must claim it, even if Germany refuses to apologize to the families of (as well as) gay survivors. This book is a lesson in combatting hatred and staying alive. It's only secondarily about pride and love. The speaker talks to you about... more info

A classic holocaust biography.:

Heinz Heger's book has become the definitive story of life as a 'pink triangle' in a concentration camp. Sadly this is partly because the Nazi's deliberate policy of murder of this group ensured few survived and also due to the understandable fear of those who did survive to tell their story. If you have read Primo Levi you should read this. It is more immediate than Levi's writings, and there is less analysis, making it all the more horrifying. He simply tells what happened, mentioning only his amazement... more info

A Moving and Powerful True Account of Survival:

A sodomy law had been on the German law books since 1871, a law known simply as Paragraph 175. Only a few people were ever sentenced under this obscure law until June of 1935 when, after the rise of Hitler and Nazism, the Nuremberg laws were enacted and the consequences of Paragraph 175 strengthened. Where once before, you had to be caught in the act of same sex relations, now simply receiving a letter or the spreading of idle gossip would have you sent to a concentration camp.

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