kathyk reviewed on 1/17/2020

Little known victims of the concentration camps during the holocaust, homosexual men were often put in prison and transferred to a concentration camp. They were assigned a pink triangle to wear on their prisoner uniform. They were beaten, tortured, starved and worked to death. A frew lucky men could trade sexual favors from Capo's ( A term used for certain prisoners inside Nazi concentration camps during World War II in various lower administrative positions. Capos received more privileges than normal prisoners.) and therefore recieved more food and easier work details.

They were called the ''175ers'' homosexuals that the Nazis arrested, beat, used as prison labor and sometimes castrated.Charges were brought under Paragraph 175 of the German criminal code, which outlawed ''unnatural indecency'' between men, starting in 1871. The Nazis broadened the statute to make ''simple looking'' and ''simple touching'' reasons for tracking and rounding up gay men.. In Austria, where the narrator of the this story is from, homosexuality was outlawed until 1971.

The interest in these victims was almost nil, as they were considered perverted in society even after the war.. So many did not come forward.

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