175s

[Otto]

>
> Very nice post, Otto. Unfortunately the "real" history doesn't support the
> premise that their release let them back "out" into the world of "normal"
> repressed sexuality.  They weren't even let out.
>
> One survivor's testimony on this link told us that the 175's were required
> to sleep with their hands outside their covers upon punishement of beating
> (no wanking!).  Their incarceration was no Homo-Eden.  They were even
> strictly segregated from casual interaction with the "normal" prisoners.
> And their abuse by another of the "lowest" class of prisoners, hoodlums,
> made them at the very bottom of the preterite class.  This does make them
> prime Pynchon subjects!
>
> David Morris
>

Yes, d'accord, on the level of real history in real Germany the argument of
the "straight" goes that it was their own "fault" being gay and therefor
sent to the camp. Really disgusting.
It's only the imagination of that "straight" oriented, male dominated
society that thinks of a "Homo-Eden" in a prison or camp and thus the
realease imagining as a banishment. Pynchon is deeply ironical here.

Otto