Source Record
Persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany
Why this source is used
Holocaust library article on pre-Nazi sexual reform, Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Research, the Nazi expansion of Paragraph 175, arrests, concentration-camp persecution and postwar consequences.
Start with the answer
Start with the answer What happened to LGBTQ+ people under Nazi rule? Under Nazi rule, gay men and gender-nonconforming people were surveilled, prosecuted, imprisoned and in many cases sent to concentration camps under intensified Paragraph 175 enforcement. Read the topic guide Early Sexology and Nazi Persecution Early sexology and organised homosexual-rights advocacy in Germany were violently interrupted by Nazi persecution under Paragraph 175.
Source Status
- Publisher
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Type
- archive
- Reliability
- high
- Cited by
- 2 pages
