- Summary
- "In December of 1943, the Danish doctor Carl Peter Vaernet was unable to get funding for his work in Denmark, and in another of the Nazis' barbaric programs, began experimenting on homosexual prisoners held at Buchenwald concentration camp under Heinrich Himmler. Vaernet subjected prisoners, both homosexual and heterosexual, to injections of hormones and other substances as well as castration in search of a cure for homosexuality. Before the Allies reached Buchenwald, Vaernet (whose 'cures' paralleled the British authorities' treatments for homosexuals, including Alan Turing) escaped to Argentina. continuing his practice within the country's National Ministry of Health where his clinic treated homosexual 'patients.' Young people, dragged by their parents to Dr. Vaernet, were given the same hormone techniques that he used on prisoners. Pink Triangle is an important examination of Vaernet's life and works, beginning in the concentration camps of World War II and continuing in Argentina, with devastating consequences and certain parallels to today" --Container.
- Variant Title
- Pink triangle and the Nazi cure for homosexuality
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Los Angeles, CA : Seventh Art Releasing, [between 2014 and 2015]
- Locale
- Germany
- Other Authors/Editors
- Steinberg, Nacho, film producer, film director.
Cohen, Jacques Broder, film producer.
Jasper, Esteban, film director, editor of moving image work.
Canis, Osvaldo, screenwriter.
Arribere, Ignacio Gutiérrez, director of photography, editor of moving image work.
Steinberg, Alan, director of photography.
Quintana, Guillermo, musical director.
Seventh Art Releasing (Firm), issuing body.
- Notes
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Based on the book: Carl Vaernet, Danish SS-Doctor in Buchenwald.
Writing, Osvaldo Canis ; cinematography, Ignacio Gutiérrez Arribere, Alan Steinberg ; film editing, Ignacio Gutiérrez Arribere, Esteban Jasper ; sound, Guillermo Quintana.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
