THE NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS
AN ANNOTATED SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Heger, Heinz. The Men with the Pink Triangle. Translated by David Fernbach. Alyson Publications, 1980. Rare memoir of the concentration camps by a gay survivor.
- Lautmann, Ruediger. “The Pink Triangle: The Homosexual Males in Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany,” in Licata, Salvatore J. and Peterson, Robert P. (eds.), Historical Perspectives on Homosexuality. Haworth Press, 1981, pp. 141-60. Exhaustive, revolutionary research on the number of homosexual men sent to the camps and their relatively low survival rate.
- Lautmann, Ruediger. “Gay Prisoners in Concentration Camps as Compared with Jehovah’s Witnesses and Political Prisoners,” in Berenbaum, Michael (ed.), A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis, New York University Press, 1990, pp. 200-06. Paper delivered at “The Other Victims” Symposium sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council at the State Department, February 1987.
- Linenthal, Edward T. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. Viking Penguin, 1995. Official history that largely overlooks the story of the struggle to remember the gay victims.
- Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. Henry Holt and Company, 1986. A decade in the making, this is a thorough review of the Nazi treatment of homosexuals from the 1920s until the end.
- Sherman, Martin. Bent. Avon Books, 1980. Controversial play dramatizing the low status of homosexual prisoners in the concentration camps.