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A detail of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, where the Nazis murdered about 55,000 queer people. When Sachsenhausen was liberated, the queer prisoners had to finish their sentences under British and American troops because homosexuality was still illegal. (see further Heinz Heger’s book The Men with the Pink Triangle.)

A detail of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, where the Nazis murdered about 55,000 queer people. When Sachsenhausen was liberated, the queer prisoners had to finish their sentences under British and American troops because homosexuality was still illegal. (see further Heinz Heger’s book The Men with the Pink Triangle.)

7 ♥ 12.14.10
Tagged: World War II, Nazism, Homophobia, Holocaust, Sachsenhausen, Germany, Queer, .
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