175s

[David Morris]

http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm

After the war, homosexual concentration camp prisoners were not acknowledged 
as victims of Nazi persecution, and reparations were refused. Under the 
Allied Military Government of Germany, some homosexuals were forced to serve 
out their terms of imprisonment, regardless of the time spent in 
concentration camps. The 1935 version of Paragraph 175 remained in effect in 
the Federal Republic (West Germany) until 1969, so that well after 
liberation, homosexuals continued to fear arrest and incarceration.

Research on Nazi persecution of homosexuals was impeded by the 
criminalization and social stigmatization of homosexuals in Europe and the 
United States in the decades following the Holocaust. Most survivors were 
afraid or ashamed to tell their stories. Recently, especially in Germany, 
new research findings on these "forgotten victims" have been published, and 
some survivors have broken their silence to give testimony.



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