Provides an overview of the anti-homosexual attitudes and policies in place under the Third Reich and the conditions homosexuals faced in the camps. Addresses the varying estimates of homosexual victims of the Holocaust. Gay Prisoners in Concentration Camps as Compared with Jehovah's Witnesses and Political Prisoners. New York University Press, 1990. Compares the social profiles and death rates of three groups imprisoned in the concentration camps for reeducation rather than for issues of racial purity.
Statistics show the differing rates of death and survival of each group.
Explores the political background of antihomosexual persecution, the daily life of gay men under National Socialism, the conditions they faced in the camps, and their efforts to receive reparations following the war. Evaluates victim statistics pertaining to homosexual men. Lautmann, Rudiger, Erhard Vismar, and Jack Nusan Porter. The Persecution of the Homosexuals During the Holocaust . The Spencer Press, 1997.