Homosexuellenverfolgung

Schoppmann, Claudia

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“…19 Although female homosexuality was not explicitly criminalised, lesbian women also faced discrimination and persecution from Nazi officials. 20 Few other states have pursued such vicious policies against queer people.…”

Section: Queer Democratisation In the Early Postwar Eramentioning

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Can Democracy Be Queer?: Male Homosexuality, Democratisation, and the Law in Postwar Germany

Huneke

2022

Contemporary European History

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When Nazi officials surrendered to the Allied powers on 8 May 1945, gay German men hoped fervently that their suffering had come to an end. Ten years earlier, the fascist government had promulgated draconian new laws criminalising all forms of male same-sex behaviour. After the war, as Allied officials embarked on an extensive programme of democratic renewal in the occupied lands, gay men hoped that democratisation would mean the repeal of these laws. Yet, the new West Germany retained the Nazi-era laws until 1969, convicting over 50,000 men in those twenty years. Using petitions to government officials as well as essays in and letters to the editors of homophile magazines, this article examines how gay men in West Germany conceived of democratisation, asking what expectations they held for the new republic, how their views shifted as it proved hostile to queer citizens, and what this history means for the broader understanding of democratisation in the postwar world.

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Can Democracy Be Queer?: Male Homosexuality, Democratisation, and the Law in Postwar Germany

Huneke

2022

Contemporary European History

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“…Celle-ci enrôle cinq femmes engagées dans le groupe Arbeitskreis lesbischer Lehrerinnen, un cercle d'enseignantes lesbiennes engagées dans la lutte contre la discrimination des homosexuelles dans le corps enseignant à un moment où les enseignant•e•s homosexuel•le•s risquaient d'être interdit•e•s d'exercice de leur fonction (97) , dont elle tirera un essai pour le catalogue de l'exposition Eldorado (98) . Elle se fera connaître par la suite pour ses recherches sur l'homosexualité féminine sous le national-socialisme : elle obtient une bourse de recherche du Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung et soutient sa thèse en 1990 sous le titre Nationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualität (99) . Toutes les commissaires lesbiennes étaient donc historiennes, étudiantes ou pratiquant pour la plupart en marge du milieu académique, comme c'était souvent le cas dans le courant de l'histoire du quotidien.…”

Section: De L'exposition Eldorado Au Schwules Museumunclassified

Généalogie du Schwules Museum (1985) : la fondation d’un « musée gai » allemand

Lespiaux¹

2021

allemagne

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“…Other masculine women and/or lesbians living in Nazi Germany sought to conceal their sexuality from their neighbors. 115 One woman entered into a sham marriage to a gay man when her landlady and the local Nazi Party official (Blockwarte) began snooping around, trying to find out if she and her girlfriend were lovers. 116 Yet Totzke had other good reasons to avoid these neighbors and to seek privacy.…”

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Lesbianism, Transvestitism, and the Nazi State: A Microhistory of a Gestapo Investigation, 1939–1943

Marhoefer¹

2016

The American Historical Review

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LAURIE MARHOEFERIN THE TIERGARTEN IN BERLIN, there is a memorial to the homosexual victims of Nazism. An ominous gray rectangular structure, it has a single small window set into its side, through which a viewer can watch a looped video. Initially the video showed two men kissing, to represent the thousands of gay men who were persecuted during the Third Reich. Because no women appeared in the footage, however, critics charged that the Nazis' lesbian victims had been forgotten. Since even before its dedication in 2008, this memorial has thus been at the center of a heated public debate: Should it include lesbians?Those who criticized the video's omission of women acknowledged that, unlike gay men, lesbians had not been the targets of an orchestrated campaign of police persecution under the Nazi state. Nevertheless, they argued, lesbians were denounced and sent to concentration camps. Moreover, the memorial is not just about the past-it is also a reminder of intolerance and violence against both gay men and lesbians in the present. 1 Prior to the dedication of the site, a compromise was reached. It stipulated that the video would eventually be replaced by one that included women. But the plan stalled when a group of historians, activists, and directors of other Holocaust memorial sites protested. In an open letter, they argued that it would be a "falsification" of history for the video to portray women. 2 The Nazi Thanks to the anonymous reviewers for the AHR,

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Homosexuellenverfolgung

Cited by 5 publications

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Can Democracy Be Queer?: Male Homosexuality, Democratisation, and the Law in Postwar Germany

Can Democracy Be Queer?: Male Homosexuality, Democratisation, and the Law in Postwar Germany

Généalogie du Schwules Museum (1985) : la fondation d’un « musée gai » allemand

Lesbianism, Transvestitism, and the Nazi State: A Microhistory of a Gestapo Investigation, 1939–1943

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