List of documents
Register of persons
Preface
Abbreviations
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
Appendix
Sources of the illustrations
Sources of the documents
Index.