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Turn of the Century Queer American. Photographer, hiker, observer of humanity. Life Long Democrat and 🏳️‍🌈 Activist. He/Him/Guncle Views expressed are my own.

Jan 27, 2018, 9 tweets

1/ Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, gay men and, to a...

2/ ...lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among Holocaust victims....

3/ ...Beginning in 1933, gay organizations were banned, scholarly books about homosexuality, and sexuality in general, (such as those...

4/ ...from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, run by Jewish gay rights campaigner Magnus Hirschfeld) were burned, and homosexuals...

5/ ...within the Nazi Party itself were murdered.

6/ The Gestapo compiled lists of homosexuals, who were compelled to sexually conform to the "German norm."

7/ Between 1933 and 1945, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested as homosexuals, of whom some 50,000 were officially sentenced.[1]...

8/ ...Most of these men served time in regular prisons, and an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 of those sentenced were incarcerated in Nazi...

9/ ...concentration is unclear how many of the 5,000 to 15,000 would die in the camps, but leading scholar Rüdiger Lautmann... camps.It

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