PropertyValue
?:author
?:datePublished
  • 2018-10-11 (xsd:date)
?:headline
  • Were Gay Concentration Camp Prisoners 'Put Back in Prison' After World War II? (en)
?:inLanguage
?:itemReviewed
?:mentions
?:reviewBody
  • In October 2018 the Facebook community page for a popular online comedy series brought attention to the horrific treatment LGBTQ Germans received not only during World War II, but afterwards. An estimated 15,000 gay people were incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps, the post on the Lizzy The Lezzy page stated. It's unclear on how many died once in the camps. The post was accompanied by a picture of a pink triangle -- the symbol officials in Nazi Germany used to identify and ostracize gay concentration camp prisoners -- and a quote drawn from the website for The Pink Triangle of San Francisco, an annual event remembering those victimized under Nazi rule: Both claims made in the post are accurate, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The men arrested for being gay were targeted under a revised version of a 19th century statute, Paragraph 175, which was expanded to categorize homosexuality as a crime of indecency. But even though the U.S. and their allies defeated the Nazi regime, the law remained in effect after World War II, as the Holocaust Memorial museum's exhibit on the regime's anti-gay persecution states: Paragraph 175 was not repealed in full, however, until 1994. On 22 March 2017, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her cabinet approved a bill that overturned convictions for gay men which had carried out under Paragraph 175 between 1949 and 1969 and also provided compensation for surviving victims. The Nazi symbol for gay concentration camp prisoners has gone through a change of its own, as the Pink Triangle of San Francisco's site states: (en)
?:reviewRating
rdf:type
?:url