The Men With The Pink Triangle

By Heinz Heger

Book Overview

Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1642598461
• ISBN13: 9781642598469
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A must-read book about the persecution of homosexuals during the Nazi years

I have to admit that though I have been well-acquianted with the Holocaust, I have not really delved into the persecution of gays by the Nazis. When I came across this book in my local library, I knew it was time to educate myself about the plight of this minority group that also suffered greatly under Hitler's Third Reich. "The Men with the Pink Triangle" is the true life account of a gay inmate of a German concentration...

A Moving and Powerful True Account of Survival

A sodomy law had been on the German law books since 1871, a law known simply as Paragraph 175. Only a few people were ever sentenced under this obscure law until June of 1935 when, after the rise of Hitler and Nazism, the Nuremberg laws were enacted and the consequences of Paragraph 175 strengthened. Where once before, you had to be caught in the act of same sex relations, now simply receiving a letter or the spreading of...

A story that needs told more

I figure we teach school kids about the Jews suffering in the Holocaust, and the blacks struggle for Civil Rights. It would make sense that kids learn the dangers of homophobic bigotry, by reading this book. It will open your eyes! The same anti-gay stereotypes then, are the same ones now. This book is about a gay man who survived the Pink Triangle, and took him over 25 years to tell his story, as their were still many...

A Poignant Reminder of a Forgotten Minority's Holocaust

Heinz Hegel's thin volume brims with the haunting facts surrounding the persecution of gays under Nazi Germany's Section 175 ruling against homosexuality. Hegel provides the shocking historical context which few of us were taught in school, that people even suspected of same gender love relationships were tortured and killed by the Nazi regime in concentration camps in the 1930s and 40s.This is a stirring testament of...

A classic holocaust biography.

Heinz Heger's book has become the definitive story of life as a 'pink triangle' in a concentration camp. Sadly this is partly because the Nazi's deliberate policy of murder of this group ensured few survived and also due to the understandable fear of those who did survive to tell their story. If you have read Primo Levi you should read this. It is more immediate than Levi's writings, and there is less analysis, making...