What happened to gay men in concentration camps

Report by Mr. From the 10 to the 16 November, over 25, men were arrested and sent to concentration camps , such as Buchenwald and Dachau. A smaller number of women were also arrested. Conditions in the camps were horrific and both men and women endured extreme violence.

The persecution of homosexuality in the Holocaust

In Poland, no one writes about the tragic fate of homosexuals during the Nazi era. Nothing has been published about the thousands of Polish homosexuals who became death camp victims. The Napoleonic Code of served as the model for this kind of progress. Under the influence of the French Revolution, Bavaria repealed in the law that imposed penalties on homosexual unions.

Robert Biedroń, Nazism’s Pink Hell

Homosexuality was technically made illegal in Germany in , but it was rarely enforced until the Nazi Party took power in As Allied troops move across Europe, they encounter the horror of thousands of prisoners in Nazi camps. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates , gay men were arrested and between 5, and 15, were placed in concentration camps.

Paragraph 175 prisoners in Auschwitz

It took years before homosexual men in Germany were able to express their sexuality openly without fear of official punishment. Paragraph was not removed from the penal code until I think that the situation we are experiencing now is a consequence of the lack of awareness of queer history.