Einleitung

The Duplicity of Tolerance: Lesbian Experiences in Nazi Berlin

“…27 Jens Dobler has shown how the law against procurement (Kuppelei) could be used to prosecute parents who tolerated their daughter's homosexuality. 28 Beginning in 1933, female prostitutes, who were often lesbians, faced increasingly violent persecution and control, and eventually could be arrested and sent to concentration camps as 'asocials,' 29 where they wore a black triangle. 30 In a recent article, Laurie Marhoefer has persuasively argued, through an analysis of the cross-dresser Ilse Totzke, that lesbianism was a factor that reduced one's 'social capital,' thereby putting lesbians at greater risk for denunciation.…”