Hidden holocaust? : gay and lesbian persecution in Germany, 1933-45 / edited by Günter Grau ; with a contribution by Claudia Schoppmann ; translated by Patrick Camiller.

Translation from German of: Homosexualität in der NS-Zeit : Dokumente einer Diskriminierung und Verfolgung.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Persecution, "re-education" or "eradication" of male homosexuals between 1933 and 1945 : consequences of the eugenic concept of assured reproduction / Günter Gray -- The position of lesbian women in the Nazi period / Claudia Schoppmann -- pt. 1. Public discrimination against homosexual men : particular actions after 1933 -- a. Disputes about whether homosexuality should be a criminal office -- b. Police raids, bans and arrests : 1933 to 1935 -- pt. 2. Tightening up the law from September 1935 -- a. The National Socialist revision of Section 175 of the Penal Code -- b. Discussions concerning the prosecution of lesbians -- pt. 3. The stepping up of prosecutions from 1936 -- a. Nation-wide registration of homosexual men -- b. The Reich Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion - and instrument of practical implementation -- c. The consequences -- pt. 4. Intensified persecution after 1939 -- a. "Ruthless severity" in the Wehrmacht -- b. The death penalty for homosexuals in the SS and police - - c. Action in the occupied territories -- Austria -- The "Protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia -- Poland -- Netherlands -- Deportations from Alsace to France -- d. Combating "homosexual transgressions" in the Hitler Youth -- pt. 5. Castration as an instrument of repression -- pt. 6. Homosexual men in concentration camps: the example of Buchenwald -- a. Pink-triangles prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp -- b. Experiments in "reversal of hormonal polarity" at Buchenwald.