Victims and Victimizers: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich

In €œVictims and Victimizer: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich,€ historian and novelist Frank Sanello (€œThe Opium Wars,€ €œThe Knights Templars, €œInvisible People: History€s Homosexuals Unhidden€) explores the life and times of gays and lesbians in Weimar and Nazi Germany. From the Anything Goes Roaring Twenties of tr©s gay Berlin, where a gay think tank stood across the street from the Reichsk¤nzlerei, the German White House, to the pink triangles of detention camps turned death camps, Sanello investigates a terrifying time in history to be gay and German. Homosexuals thrived in pre-Nazi Germany and may have been more accepted than anywhere else in the world €“ until Hitler came to power in 1933. From there, gays and lesbians who couldn€t or wouldn€t escape paid the ultimate penalty for their decision to remain in a country that hated them, if possible, more than its Jews.