Victims and Victimizers: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich

By Frank Sanello

Book Overview

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 s gay Berlin, where a gay think tank stood across the street from the Reichsk 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466213272
• ISBN13: 9781466213272
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"