A review by gabbyenoaktown
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger

5.0

I have done work (and continue to ...) with Facing History and Ourselves, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and other organizations. I bought this book when I was at the USHMM for its Belfer National Conference for Teachers. My stack of Holocaust/genocide texts is high, though pitifully small compared to many other fine teachers I have worked with. I cannot recommend this text highly enough. It illuminates an often overlooked, ignored, or castigated community of persecuted people. It is not known how many homosexuals were murdered by the Nazis; survivors were persecuted after Liberation. The text also paints a clear picture of camp brutality, and the odd humanity that was sometimes present.