Victims and Victimizers Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich |
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Author:
| Sanello, Frank |
ISBN: | 978-1-4662-1327-2 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2011 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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In "Victims and Victimizer: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich," historian and novelist Frank Sanello ("The Opium Wars," "The Knights Templars, "Invisible People: History's Homosexuals Unhidden") explores the life and times of gays and lesbians in Weimar and Nazi Germany.From the Anything Goes Roaring Twenties of tr#65533;s gay Berlin, where a gay think tank stood across the street from the Reichsk#65533;nzlerei, the German White House, to the pink triangles of detention camps turned...
More DescriptionIn "Victims and Victimizer: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich," historian and novelist Frank Sanello ("The Opium Wars," "The Knights Templars, "Invisible People: History's Homosexuals Unhidden") explores the life and times of gays and lesbians in Weimar and Nazi Germany.From the Anything Goes Roaring Twenties of tr#65533;s gay Berlin, where a gay think tank stood across the street from the Reichsk#65533;nzlerei, the German White House, to the pink triangles of detention camps turned death camps, Sanello investigates a terrifying time in history to be gay and German.Homosexuals thrived in pre-Nazi Germany and may have been more accepted than anywhere else in the world - until Hitler came to power in 1933. From there, gays and lesbians who couldn't or wouldn't escape paid the ultimate penalty for their decision to remain in a country that hated them, if possible, more than its Jews.