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It has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to the persecution and interment of gay men by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Since that time, books such as Richard Plant's The Pink Triangle (and Martin Sherman's play Bent) have illuminated this nearly lost history. Heinz Heger's first-person account, The Men with the Pink Triangle, was one of the first books on the topic and remains one of the most important.
In 1939, Heger, a Viennese university student, was arrested and sentenced to prison for being a "degenerate." Within weeks he was transported to Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp in East Germany, and forced to wear a pink triangle to show that his crime was homosexuality. He remained there, under horrific conditions, until the end of the war in 1945.
The power of The Men with the Pink Triangle comes from Heger's sparse prose and his ability to recall—and communicate—the smallest resonant details. The pain and squalor of everyday camp life—the constant filth, the continuous presence of death, and the unimaginable cruelty of those in command—are all here. But Heger's story would be unbearable were it not for the simple courage he and others used to survive and, having survived, that he bore witness. This book is harrowing but necessary reading for everyone concerned about gay history, human rights, or social justice.
—Michael Bronski
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Swaffham, UK: The Gay Men's Press Bibliothek, 1997
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Softcover. Condition: New. [LGBTQ]. Heinz Heger. "The Men with the Pink Triangle." Swaffham, UK: The Gay Men's Press Bibliothek, 1997. English language. Softcover with pictorial wrappers. 128 pp. Text clean. No issues. New. ISBN: 0854492704. OCLC: 59603870. "Originally published in German in 1972. A unique first-hand account of the life and death of homosexual prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps. It has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to the persecution and interment of gay men by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Since that time, books such as Richard Plant's The Pink Triangle (and Martin Sherman's play Bent) have illuminated this nearly lost history. Heinz Heger's first-person account, The Men with the Pink Triangle, was one of the first books on the topic and remains one of the most important.". Seller Inventory # 0000967
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