US Holocaust Museum exhibit of gay
persecution by Nazis
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The US Holocaust Museum's
new exhibit covers 1933-1945
WASHINGTON, DC — Thousands
of homosexuals, primarily gay men,
were murdered in concentration camps
by the-Nazis along with millions of lews
and other victims including, Roma
(Gypsies), Poles, Soviet prisoners of
war, )ehovah’s Witnesses and the
handicapped during World War II and
the Holocaust.
The story of what happened to
homosexuals in Nazi Germany is the
subject of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum’s new exhibition,
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-
1945..
“This exhibition reflects the Muse
um’s commitment to recognizing all
the victims of Nazism," says Fred S.
Zeidman, Chairman of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council,
the Museum’s governing body.
In. 1933, the year Adolf Hitler
assumed power, an estimated one mil
lion -homosexual men lived in
Germany. Nazi policy asserted that
homosexual men carried a “degenera
cy” that threatened the “disciplined
masculinity” of Germany. Additionally,
the Nazis charged that homosexuals’
failure to father children was a factor in
Germany’s declining birth rate, thus
robbing the nation of future sons and
Collage on the closing of gay and lesbian bars in
Berlin from Vienna newspaper Der notschrei [The Cry
for Help), March 4, 1933. Schwules Museum, Berlin.
daughters who could fight for and
work toward a greater Reich.
Exhibition curator, Edward
Phillips said, “The Nazis bclieved.it was
possible to ‘cure’ homosexual behavior
through labor and ‘re-education.’ As
their efforts to eradicate homosexuality
grew more draconian, gay men
became subject to castration, institu
tionalization, and deportation to con
centration camps.”
Between 1933 and 1945, an esti
mated 100,000 men were arrested for
homosexuality, and of these, approxi
mately 50,000 were sentenced for the
crime. Most of these men spent time in
regular prisons. An estimated 5000 —
15,000 were' sent to concentration
camps where an unknown number of
them perished.
The exhibition will run through
Sunday, March 16, 2003 — after
which it will circulate to cities across
the country. More than two years in
development, it is the first major
exhibition on the subject for English-
speaking audiences and draws on
materials from more than .40 archives
and other repositories in eight coun
tries.
info;
Exhibit now through March 16,2003
www.usholocaustmuseum.org
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